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MCP in practice: Building repeatable AI workflows with custom MCP servers

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Table of Contents

  1. MCP 101 and hosting on Posit Connect
  2. Connecting to an MCP server with OAuth
  3. Building, deploying, and using MCP servers on Connect
  4. Monitoring MCP server usage
  5. Additional resources
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MCP 101 and hosting on Posit Connect

Covering what Model Context Protocol (MCP) is and what happens behind a tool call. We'll also look at when a remote MCP server is the right choice (and when a skill is a better fit), and why Posit Connect is a great place to host your MCP servers, with auto-generated landing pages, a built-in OAuth server, access controls, and usage monitoring.

Connecting to an MCP server with OAuth

Connecting Posit Assistant to an MCP server on Connect through a browser-based OAuth flow, with no hardcoded API keys to manage or rotate.

Building, deploying, and using MCP servers on Connect

Building an MCP server with FastMCP, deploying it to Connect in one click, querying live clinical data in Snowflake with each user's role-based access preserved, and using the same tools from Posit Assistant and Claude Desktop.

Monitoring MCP server usage

Tracking who is using your MCP server and how often, from per-server usage metrics to the admin dashboard view across every MCP server on the instance.

Additional resources

Speakers

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Samiul Haque

Senior Solutions Advisor, Posit
Samiul is a Senior Solutions Advisor for Life Sciences at Posit, PBC. He has a background in computational systems biology and over eight years of software industry experience, including the last five in life sciences. Samiul partners with pharmaceutical clients to design and architect Statistical Computing Environments (SCEs), Real World Evidence (RWE) solutions, and Agentic Workflows that modernize clinical and scientific data pipelines.
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Matt Leary

Product Manager, Posit
Matt Leary is currently a product manager for Posit Connect. Prior to Posit, he worked as a data scientist and AI product owner at a specialty insurance carrier.