3 posts tagged with "MCP"

OpenBuild is the visual builder for Conduction apps. The three-paths tutorial teaches the manifest path by hand: you write manifest.json and the Cn* components render it. OpenBuild builds that exact same manifest for you through a UI. You point and click, OpenBuild writes the manifest and the OpenRegister schemas behind it, and you get a working Nextcloud app with no repository, no build step, and no deploy.

This tutorial builds a Pet Store with a veterinary layer, the canonical Conduction sample domain. By the end you have an app your whole organisation can open: a dashboard of live numbers and charts, browsable lists of pets and owners, a rich pet profile page, a vets-only medical section, a released production version, a widget on everyone's LaunchPad, vet appointments in Nextcloud Calendar, and photos attached to each pet. Everything in this tutorial is built in the OpenBuild UI against a real OpenRegister behind it.

MCP — Model Context Protocol — is the standard interface Claude Code uses to call out to external tools. Inside a Conduction project, that means two things in practice: a Playwright browser pool (browser-1 … browser-7) for the testing skills, and the OpenRegister MCP server for direct access to your local Conduction data layer. A workstation isn't really complete until at least the browser pool is wired into your project root via .mcp.json. This part covers that; the OpenRegister MCP server has its own tutorial — we link to it at the bottom.

The OpenRegister Nextcloud app exposes an MCP server at /index.php/apps/openregister/api/mcp. Once you point Claude at it, you can ask questions like "list every schema in the woo register" or "give me the audit trail for object X" and Claude will fetch the answer through MCP instead of you opening the admin UI. This tutorial assumes you already have a local Nextcloud with OpenRegister running and a Playwright .mcp.json in place — what we add here is one more entry to that file, plus the Nextcloud app-password that makes the call work.