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Pull request overview
This PR adds a new blog post about MCP Sampling, explaining how MCP servers can use the sampling feature to request AI assistance from the connected client. The post provides technical examples using Python/FastMCP and showcases the Council of Mine MCP server as a real-world implementation.
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- Introduces MCP Sampling concept and its benefits over alternative approaches
- Provides code examples demonstrating sampling implementation
- Documents Council of Mine as a practical example of sampling in action
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| **Option 3: Use Sampling** | ||
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| Ask the AI that's already connected to do the thinking for you. No extra API keys. No model lock in. The user's existing AI setup handles it. |
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"lock in" should be hyphenated as "lock-in" when used as a compound noun.
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| Ask the AI that's already connected to do the thinking for you. No extra API keys. No model lock in. The user's existing AI setup handles it. | |
| Ask the AI that's already connected to do the thinking for you. No extra API keys. No model lock-in. The user's existing AI setup handles it. |
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| ## Try It Yourself | ||
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| If you want to see sampling in action, [Council of Mine](/docs/mcp/council-of-mine-mcp) is a great playground. Ask goose to start a council debate on any topic and watch as nine distinct perspectives emerge, vote on each other, and synthesize into a conclusion all powered by sampling. |
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The sentence structure is confusing. "Perspectives" cannot "vote on each other" and "synthesize" - these actions are performed by council members, not perspectives. Consider revising to: "Ask goose to start a council debate on any topic and watch as nine distinct perspectives emerge from members who vote on each other's opinions and synthesize into a conclusion."
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| If you want to see sampling in action, [Council of Mine](/docs/mcp/council-of-mine-mcp) is a great playground. Ask goose to start a council debate on any topic and watch as nine distinct perspectives emerge, vote on each other, and synthesize into a conclusion all powered by sampling. | |
| If you want to see sampling in action, [Council of Mine](/docs/mcp/council-of-mine-mcp) is a great playground. Ask goose to start a council debate on any topic and watch as nine distinct perspectives emerge from members who vote on each other's opinions and synthesize into a conclusion. |
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* main: fix params not being substituted in activities (#5992) blog: MCP Sampling (#5987) Update Anthropic and Google Gemini models to latest API versions (#5980) docs: chat recall tutorial (#5975) fix: `final assistant content cannot end with trailing whitespace` error from Anthropic (#5967) 5527 multiple file popups (#5905) Groq configure fix (#5833) added sidebar contextual information for firefox (#5433) docs: council of mine MCP (#5979) docs: nano banana extension (#5977) fix: remove prompt change, read model from config (#5976) Enable recipe deeplink parameters for pre-population (#5757)
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…nses-streaming * 'main' of github.com:block/goose: blog: MCP Sampling (#5987) Update Anthropic and Google Gemini models to latest API versions (#5980) docs: chat recall tutorial (#5975) fix: `final assistant content cannot end with trailing whitespace` error from Anthropic (#5967) 5527 multiple file popups (#5905) Groq configure fix (#5833) added sidebar contextual information for firefox (#5433) docs: council of mine MCP (#5979) docs: nano banana extension (#5977) fix: remove prompt change, read model from config (#5976) Enable recipe deeplink parameters for pre-population (#5757) chore: upgrade npm packages (#5951) feat: ActionRequired (#5897) feat(acp): support loading sessions in acp (#5942) docs: add videos to multi-model page (#5938)
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* origin/main: feat(mcp): elicitation support (#5965) Onboarding detect provider from api key (#5955) Fix PATH on Windows for extensions (#6000) recipe(datahub): Add a recipe for searching & understanding data in DataHub (#5859) fix params not being substituted in activities (#5992) blog: MCP Sampling (#5987)
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* 'main' of github.com:block/goose: (21 commits) Hide recipe icon in empty chat (#6022) docs: provider and model config (#6008) Show modal selector after configuring a provider (#6005) docs: additional mcp sampling resources (#6020) Flutter PR Code Review (#6011) feat(mcp): elicitation support (#5965) Onboarding detect provider from api key (#5955) Fix PATH on Windows for extensions (#6000) recipe(datahub): Add a recipe for searching & understanding data in DataHub (#5859) fix params not being substituted in activities (#5992) blog: MCP Sampling (#5987) Update Anthropic and Google Gemini models to latest API versions (#5980) docs: chat recall tutorial (#5975) fix: `final assistant content cannot end with trailing whitespace` error from Anthropic (#5967) 5527 multiple file popups (#5905) Groq configure fix (#5833) added sidebar contextual information for firefox (#5433) docs: council of mine MCP (#5979) docs: nano banana extension (#5977) fix: remove prompt change, read model from config (#5976) ... # Conflicts: # ui/desktop/src/api/sdk.gen.ts # ui/desktop/src/components/bottom_menu/DirSwitcher.tsx
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* 'main' of github.com:block/goose: (159 commits) Cleanup: Remove Recipe Key Flow (#6015) chore(deps): bump mdast-util-to-hast from 13.2.0 to 13.2.1 in /documentation (#5963) remove problematic corrupted woff font (#6006) Added search bar / filtering for recipes (#6019) Hide recipe icon in empty chat (#6022) docs: provider and model config (#6008) Show modal selector after configuring a provider (#6005) docs: additional mcp sampling resources (#6020) Flutter PR Code Review (#6011) feat(mcp): elicitation support (#5965) Onboarding detect provider from api key (#5955) Fix PATH on Windows for extensions (#6000) recipe(datahub): Add a recipe for searching & understanding data in DataHub (#5859) fix params not being substituted in activities (#5992) blog: MCP Sampling (#5987) Update Anthropic and Google Gemini models to latest API versions (#5980) docs: chat recall tutorial (#5975) fix: `final assistant content cannot end with trailing whitespace` error from Anthropic (#5967) 5527 multiple file popups (#5905) Groq configure fix (#5833) ...
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Summary
blog post on mcp sampling
Type of Change
AI Assistance