Introducing the Epic Workshop MCP

Model Context Protocol enables you as a developer to integrate directly with the AI tools that your users are using. I took advantage of this as an educator by integrating a Model Context Protocol server with the Epic Workshop app. This will help learners ask their AI-assisted code editors about the specific exercise they are working on.

To use this, you configure your editor with the following command:

npx -y @epic-web/workshop-app@latest

Here's what that configuration looks like in Cursor:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "epicshop": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@epic-web/workshop-mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}

With that set up, you can simply ask your AI-enabled editor about your progress in the current exercise, and it will be able to compare your work-in-progress with the solution, giving you tips on how to get to the solution and answering any questions you have about the solution.

MCP is pretty rad!!