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7.4 Anthropic API ¶

The Messages API doesn’t accept MCP servers natively, so the connection is indirect: you implement a thin loop that lets Claude call tools. Two practical approaches:

• Use Anthropic’s MCP bridge or a similar shim that adapts MCP tool calls into Messages-API tool_use/tool_result turns.
• Implement the bridge yourself: list OwnSona’s tools via tools/list, expose them as tools in the Messages API, relay tool_use blocks back to OwnSona as tools/call, and pass results back as tool_result content.

The OwnSona side is identical to any MCP server. The only thing specific to Anthropic is the transport adaptor.