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Upskill your LLMs With Gradio MCP Servers Have you ever wanted your favorite Large Language Model (LLM) to do more than just answer questions? The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that enables developers to build secure, two-way connections between an LLM and a set of tools. That means that Hugging Face Spaces is the one place where you can find thousands of AI-powered abilities for your LLM, aka the MCP App Store! Let's plug this model as an MCP server into an LLM and have it edit images for us.
Upskill your LLMs With Gradio MCP Servers Have you ever wanted your favorite Large Language Model (LLM) to do more than just answer questions? What if it could edit images for you, browse the web, or organize your email inbox?
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that enables developers to build secure, two-way connections between an LLM and a set of tools. For example, if you create an MCP server that exposes a tool capable of transcribing a video, then you can connect an LLM client (such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Cline) to the server. The LLM will then know how to transcribe videos and use this tool for you depending on your request.
In short, an MCP server is a standard way to upskill your LLM by granting it a new ability. Think of it like the apps on your smartphone. On its own, your smartphone can't edit images, but you can download an app to do this from the app store. Now, if only there were an app store for MCP servers? 🤔
These spaces are implemented with Gradio , an open source python package for creating AI-powered web servers. As of version 5.28.0 , Gradio apps support the MCP protocol.
Hugging Face Spaces is the world's largest collection of AI applications. Most of these spaces perform a specialized task with an AI model. For example:
That means that Hugging Face Spaces is the one place where you can find thousands of AI-powered abilities for your LLM, aka the MCP App Store!
Want to browse the app store? Visit this link . Manually, you can filter for MCP Compatible in https://hf.co/spaces .
Upskill your LLMs With Gradio MCP Servers. Covered by Hugging Face on July 9, 2025.