TinkerChapter 7 of 7
Workbench
The assistant can look up orders, read the calendar and issue refunds, through MCP servers, behind a gate and a limit. Now four requests arrive, and each needs its own setup.
This chapter: Given a request, which servers, gate and permissions should the host have?
You will learn
- Connect only the servers whose tools a request uses
- Keep the approval gate on wherever a tool that changes data is connected
- Set a limit that fits the job and nothing more
Words you’ll meet (2)
- Setup
- How the host is configured for a request: which servers it connects, whether the gate is on, and the refund limit.
- Least privilege
- Giving the host and its tools only the power a request needs, and no more.
The picture on the left is live. Each step below asks you to do one thing in it; the story continues here as you go.
Step 1 of 2
Last stop: the workbench. Here is Larkspur’s host app and its 2 MCP servers, none connected yet, with the approval gate and the refund limit from chapter 6. Connect a server to start.
Refund limit for issue_refund