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🌸 Spring into Haystack 🌸

💙 Thank you for your interest in Spring into Haystack!

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You’re still welcome to follow the instructions below and build your own Haystack AI Agent that integrates with MCP servers.

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🌱 Sprout an Agent with Haystack & MCP

Spring has sprung — flowers are blooming, birds are chirping, and it’s the perfect time for some fresh ideas to take root 🐥

Spring cleaning can wait… you’re here to level up your AI dev skills with Haystack and take part in a blossoming new movement: Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) 🌐

This challenge invites you to sprout a Haystack Agent that speaks MCP and connects to external systems — starting with GitHub.

🧠 What’s MCP?

The Model Context Protocol is an emerging open standard that unlocks two-way, secure, and structured communication between your AI applications and the tools they use.

In this model:

  • MCP Servers act like translators between your app and real-world tools — whether it’s API like GitHub, a database, or a local file system. Think of them as smart wrappers that expose APIs and systems to AI in a consistent, reliable way.
  • MCP Clients (like your Haystack Agent) handle everything from connection management to calling specific tools, to parsing and acting on responses.

🪻 Your Spring Challenge

You’re going to create a tool-calling Haystack Agent that acts as an MCP Client — capable of connecting to the GitHub MCP Server and performing actions like:

  • Creating forks
  • Opening PRs
  • Reading file content
  • Updating issues
  • … or whatever GitHub action you choose to empower it with ✨

🔧 You’ll Use:

  • Agent – component for the smart decision-maker
  • MCPTool – lets your agent talk to the MCP Server

🎯 Requirements

You can find more info in deepset-ai/spring-into-haystack.