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Adding tools to the MCP server

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Adding tools to the MCP server

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- [Instructor] But wait a moment. The purpose of building that MCP server was to add in more tools. And right now we just have the same tools. So let's add in a new tool. I'll click Plus here, then say Google Sheets. I wanted to Google Sheets tool. The setup at the beginning is the same as before, except now instead of Get Rows, I want Update Row. We're still looking at the same document, Volunteer Index. We're still looking at the same sheet, the full sheet now. And because I'm doing Update Row, we now need to fill in more information. Specifically, we need to map the columns for the sheet. Because when we're doing an update, we're passing in information to a specific row and a specific column within that row. Now this can be done either automatically. By letting the system find the rows, you'll notice that is not the default. That is because it doesn't always work that well. So instead, we'll choose Map Each Column Manually. The system goes in and grabs the columns. Then we have to…

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