Who supports MCP?
| Tool | Support | How it uses MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Claude | Native (Anthropic created MCP) | Claude.ai, Claude Code — Slack, Jira, GitHub, Gmail, Calendar |
| ChatGPT | Yes (since March 2025) | Desktop app, Codex |
| GitHub Copilot | Yes — MCP Registry in VS Code | Agent mode, discover & install servers |
| Codex | Yes — CLI as MCP server | Orchestrated by other agents via MCP |
| Rovo | Yes | Jira/Confluence natively + third-party |
| OpenClaw | Yes — model-agnostic | Skills + MCP servers |
| Gemini | A2A as complement to MCP | Gemini Code Assist supports MCP servers |
MCP servers useful for QA
| Server | What it gives testers |
|---|---|
| Jira | Creating/editing tickets, searching bugs from within AI |
| Confluence | Reading documentation, requirements, test plans |
| GitHub | PR reviews, creating issues, triggering CI/CD |
| Slack | Notifications, reading channels |
| Sentry / Datadog | Analyzing production errors, alerts |
| Playwright | AI runs browser tests, debugs failures |
| Custom server | MCP server for your internal test runner, QA metrics |
Scenario: bug analysis with MCP
Tester: “Check if bug PROJ-1234 has a sufficient description and suggest missing information”
- Jira MCP → fetches the bug description
- Confluence MCP → searches for related requirements
- GitHub MCP → checks recent commits in the service
- Claude (reasoning) → identifies gaps: API version, reproduction steps, expected vs actual
- Jira MCP → adds a comment with the supplementary information
- Slack MCP → notifies the team
One interaction instead of manually jumping between 4 tools.
MCP security
- Consent before action — the host MUST ask for consent before executing a tool
- Least privilege — minimal permissions, read-only where possible
- Audit trail — log what the agent did, when, and on whose instruction
- Prompt injection — MCP tool descriptions can contain malicious instructions
- OAuth + RFC 8707 — tokens scoped to a specific MCP server
How to start?
- Check what you already have — Claude.ai has built-in MCP for Slack, Google Drive, Atlassian
- Install MCP in VS Code — Copilot has an MCP Registry
- Identify repetitive workflows — what do you do manually 10 times a day?
- Start with read-only — read first, write later
- Write your own MCP server — a simple server in TypeScript/Python takes a few hours
In the next post: 6 Practical AI Examples in QA — ready-to-copy prompts.