MCP Discovery Class

R6 class for discovering MCP servers on the local network using mDNS/DNS-SD (Bonjour) protocol.

Public fields

discovered

List of discovered MCP endpoints.

registry_url

URL of the remote skill registry.

Methods

Public methods

• McpDiscovery$new()

• McpDiscovery$scan_network()

• McpDiscovery$register()

• McpDiscovery$query_capabilities()

• McpDiscovery$list_endpoints()

• McpDiscovery$search_registry()

• McpDiscovery$print()

• McpDiscovery$clone()

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Method new()

Create a new MCP Discovery instance.

Usage

McpDiscovery$new(registry_url = NULL)

Arguments

registry_url

Optional URL for remote skill registry.

Returns

A new McpDiscovery object.

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Method scan_network()

Scan the local network for MCP servers.

Usage

McpDiscovery$scan_network(timeout_seconds = 5, service_type = "_mcp._tcp")

Arguments

timeout_seconds

How long to scan for services.

service_type

The mDNS service type to look for.

Returns

A data frame of discovered services.

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Method register()

Register a known MCP endpoint manually.

Usage

McpDiscovery$register(name, host, port, capabilities = NULL)

Arguments

name

Service name.

host

Hostname or IP address.

port

Port number.

capabilities

Optional list of capabilities.

Returns

Self (invisibly).

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Method query_capabilities()

Query a discovered server for its capabilities.

Usage

McpDiscovery$query_capabilities(host, port)

Arguments

host

Hostname or IP.

port

Port number.

Returns

A list of server capabilities.

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Method list_endpoints()

List all discovered MCP endpoints.

Usage

McpDiscovery$list_endpoints()

Returns

A data frame of endpoints.

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Method search_registry()

Search the remote registry for skills.

Usage

McpDiscovery$search_registry(query)

Arguments

query

Search query.

Returns

A data frame of matching skills.

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Method print()

Print method for McpDiscovery.

Usage

McpDiscovery$print()

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Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

McpDiscovery$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.