When are we going to get proper MCP support on OpenWebUI?
All resolved now - for anyone running into this later, there is a function calling tag under advanced parameters which needs to be changed from default to native. This resolves function calling only being executed before the prompt is generated and makes OWUI work great.
Many thanks to u/overand, u/Stike_1, u/anengineerdude and everyone else who corrected me here. This is not a missing feature, just some confusion on my end.
>!I really love this platform, but it is held back significantly by the fact that it doesn't support the traditional method of MCP calls. From my observations, the calls appear to occur in a separate COT from the main response and presents the MCP response as a file source rather than something that can be requested mid-response (as the AI model realises it needs certain tool usages / data for its reasoning process). I had the same issue using the in-house python-based tool interface, where I can't (1) have my AI model make a tool call after it has started the prompt and (2) use multiple tool calls in one prompt.!<
>!It would be really great if this could be addressed in an upcoming update, seeing as this is is one of the best ways to expand AI model capabilities and is available on most other inference providers at this point. OWUI has been such an amazing thing to find and to be able to play around with, but the current 'experimental' implementation leaves a lot to be desired.!<