# Deploy, Discover, Inspect, Observe: A Summer Spent Making a Public Vespa MCP Server

DevFeed: [Deploy, Discover, Inspect, Observe: A Summer Spent Making a Public Vespa MCP Server](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/deploy-discover-inspect-observe-a-summer-spent-making-a-public-vespa-mcp-server-12795.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.vespa.ai/public-mcp-interns/>)

Author: eivinbingen oystein viktor mfstort

Published: 2026-09-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Vespa Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/vespa-blog.md>)

Topics: [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-context-protocol-mcp.md>), [MCP Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp-server.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

Tags: [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [ai-assistants](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-assistants.md>), [claude](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [codex](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/codex.md>), [internships](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internships.md>), [language-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/language-models.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [mcp-server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp-server.md>)

## AI overview

This article describes the construction of a standalone, publicly hosted Vespa Cloud MCP server. It explains how MCP connects AI assistants and language models to external systems through resources, tools, and prompts, and discusses evaluating MCP usage against terminal access and Vespa CLI access.

## Source excerpt

We built a standalone Vespa Cloud MCP server as a summer interns project