Talking Drupal #529 - MCP, Automators, and Agents

Today we are talking about MCPs, AI Automators, and AI Agents with guest Marcus Johansson. We’ll also cover AI Ecosystem Recipe as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/529

Topics

• Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• AI Automators in Drupal
• Creating Complex Workflows with Automators
• Simple and Effective Automator Use Cases
• AI Image Alt Text and Contextual Understanding
• AI Tagging and Content Management
• Introduction to AI Agents in Drupal
• Challenges and Future of AI Agents
• Real-World Applications and Future of AI in Drupal
• Proliferation of Orchestration Tools

Resources

• ai initiative issue queue
• Recipes from 1xInternet
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/ai_recipe_image_classification
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/ai_recipe_llm_optimized_content
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/ai_recipe_seo_optimizer
• MCP
• xkcd
• Tool API
• Slack MCP Server
• Drupal MCP
• MCP Client
• JSON API wrapper
• Tagify
• Views Agent
• Context control center
• Marriage podcast

Guests

Marcus Johansson - workflows-of-ai.com marcus_johansson

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to explore the AI capabilities of Drupal, but didn’t know where to start? There’s a Drupal recipe for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • AI Ecosystem Recipe
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Oct 2024 by Marcus Johansson (marcus_johansson of FreelyGive.io
• Versions available: 1.0.0-alpha2, which requires Drupal 10.3 or newer
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Number of open issues: 2 open issues, both of which are bugs
• Module features and usage
  • When you require and apply this recipe to your Drupal site, you’ll be able to start working with a variety of LLMs and specialized AI-based services
  • You’ll be able to ingest unstructured content and map it to structured fields automatically. Or generate a detailed SEO analysis of your nodes. There are multiple translation tools, crawlers to help work across entire sites, and more.
  • This recipe is likely something you would apply to a sandbox site, to understand the various ways to achieve something specific with AI and Drupal, and then apply whatever is best for your use case to your actual site build.
  • But it’s a useful resource for a Drupalist wanting to start exploring some of the growing list of options for working with AI, or someone familiar with AI tools who wants to start using them with Drupal.