- enabling local MCP in Desktop like Claude Desktop, not just server-side remote. (I don't think you can run a local server unless you expose it to their IP)
- having an MCP store where you can click on e.g. Figma to connect your account and start talking to it
- letting you easily connect to your own Agents SDK MCP servers deployed in their cloud
ChatGPT MCP support is underwhelming compared to Claude Desktop.
You absolutely can make a local MCP server! I use one as part of TalkiTo which runs one in the background and connects it to Claude Code at runtime so it looks like this:
Admittedly that's not as straight forward as one might hope.
Also regarding this point "letting you easily connect to your own Agents SDK MCP servers deployed in their cloud" I hear roocode has a cool new remote connect to your local machine so you can interact with roocode on your desktop from any browser.
One way around this to use a gateway to run the local MCP - then connect to it via the gateway. We just rolled out support for that [1] in the one we're making at mintmcp.com
- enabling local MCP in Desktop like Claude Desktop, not just server-side remote. (I don't think you can run a local server unless you expose it to their IP)
- having an MCP store where you can click on e.g. Figma to connect your account and start talking to it
- letting you easily connect to your own Agents SDK MCP servers deployed in their cloud
ChatGPT MCP support is underwhelming compared to Claude Desktop.