Liad Yosef

Liad Yosef is an AI lead and software architect, co-founder and CTO of Era Labs, and a co-builder of MCP-UI. He co-authors and maintains MCP Apps on the MCP Steering Committee, co-created GitMCP, and has worked on agentic interfaces at Shopify and monday.com.

MCP Apps Turn Chat Hosts Into Application Distribution Channels

Liad Yosef and Ido Salomon argue that MCP Apps turn chat products such as ChatGPT, Claude, VS Code, Cursor and Copilot into application distribution surfaces, not just places for text responses. Their case is that tools can return branded, interactive UI resources over MCP, while user actions flow back through the host so the model retains context and control. For builders, they frame this as a shift from monolithic web destinations to portable app components that can run across compliant agent hosts.

AI EngineerMay 7, 202612 min read