MCP Servers Begin Returning Images and Apps
adnan_hashmi · x · 2026-07-17
This post shares a technical article about MCP server, focusing on expanding beyond "text-only" returns to include:
- Returning images
- Returning interactive apps
The core message is that MCP servers can now provide chat interfaces not just with text answers, but with richer multimodal outputs and interactive components, broadening the integration capabilities and application forms of MCP-based tools.
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