I've been seriously trying to use MCP server for the past 2 days. Today, I successfully completed a small demo task using the coding agent plugin - Roo Code on VS Code. Here are some specific steps and pitfalls you're likely to encounter.
- I added 2 MCP Servers in Roo Code, namely:
- Initially, the "Filesystem" MCP server wouldn't run because I was using VS Code in Windows with PowerShell. If you're also a Windows user, you'll likely encounter errors running Node.js-based MCP servers. You can refer to the following two posts to resolve the issue:
- Installing node the right way - by BindingOx: This post resolves the error where the Filesystem MCP server cannot be started in Claude Desktop.
- put the absolute path of the executable in the config to skip path resolution - by Jack Steam: This post resolves the error where the Filesystem MCP server cannot be started in Roo Code (Cline).
The above two posts should also apply to other Node.js-based MCP servers. 3. What I specifically did with the MCP server:
- First, I told Roo: Use everything-search to help me find out which videos are in the "Downloads" folder.
- Roo returned the results it found.
- Then I told Roo: Help me use the MCP server - filesystem to group the video files and create corresponding folders according to the requirements of "...(detailed description)...", and move the videos of each group into the corresponding folders.
- Roo spent a few minutes helping me complete the above tasks.
- The LLM I used was Claude-3.7-Sonnet, and the provider was Requesty. It cost me $5 in just a few minutes... I dare not use Claude anymore when using MCP in the future.
