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title: Rich Interactive Chat with MCP Apps and MCP-UI
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description: Build interactive UI applications that render inside goose Desktop using MCP Apps and MCP-UI
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<h1 className={styles.pageTitle}>Rich Interactive Chat with MCP Apps and MCP-UI</h1>
<p className={styles.pageDescription}>
  goose Desktop supports extensions that transform text-only responses into graphical, interactive experiences. Instead of reading through lists and descriptions, you can click, explore, and interact with UI components directly in your conversations.
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    title="Turn Any AI Chat Into an Interactive Experience | MCP-UI"
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  <h2 className={styles.categoryTitle}>📚 Documentation & Guides</h2>
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    <Card 
      title="Building MCP Apps"
      description="Step-by-step tutorial to create interactive UI applications that render inside goose Desktop."
      link="/docs/tutorials/building-mcp-apps"
    />
    <Card 
      title="Using MCP Apps and MCP-UI"
      description="goose transforms text-based responses into engaging graphical and interactive user experiences."
      link="/docs/guides/interactive-chat/mcp-ui"
    />
    <Card 
      title="Auto Visualiser Extension"
      description="Generate interactive data visualizations automatically in goose."
      link="/docs/mcp/autovisualiser-mcp"
    />
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  <h2 className={styles.categoryTitle}>📝 Featured Blog Posts</h2>
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    <Card      
      title="From MCP-UI to MCP Apps: Evolving Interactive Agent UIs"
      description="A practical migration guide to MCP Apps: the 4 key changes, what broke, and why this shift matters."
      link="/blog/2026/01/22/mcp-ui-to-mcp-apps"
    />
    <Card      
      title="goose Lands MCP Apps"
      description="goose ships early support for the draft MCP Apps specification, aligning with the emerging standard for interactive UIs."
      link="/blog/2026/01/06/mcp-apps"
    />
    <Card      
      title="MCP UI: Bringing the Browser into the Agent"
      description="MCP-UI servers return content that goose Desktop renders as rich, embeddable UI."
      link="/blog/2025/08/11/mcp-ui-post-browser-world"
    />
    <Card      
      title="MCP-UI: The Future of Agentic Interfaces"
      description="AI agents need to move beyond walls of text to rich and interactive UX."
      link="/blog/2025/08/25/mcp-ui-future-agentic-interfaces"
    />
    <Card      
      title="Auto Visualiser with MCP-UI"
      description="Automatically render visual representations of data as you interact with it, powered by MCP-UI"
      link="/blog/2025/08/27/autovisualiser-with-mcp-ui"
    />
    <Card      
      title="How to Make An MCP Server MCP-UI Compatible"
      description="Making an MCP server MCP-UI compatible requires just a few lines of code"
      link="/blog/2025/09/08/turn-any-mcp-server-mcp-ui-compatible"
    />
    <Card      
      title="Designing AI for Users, Not Just LLMs"
      description="Building intent-based AI experiences with MCP-UI."
      link="/blog/2025/10/14/designing-ai-for-humans"
    />
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  <h2 className={styles.categoryTitle}>🎥 More Videos</h2>

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      src: 'https://youtube.com/embed/QcojQ3Fwqsw',
      title: 'What are MCP Apps?',
      description: 'Why MCP Apps are different from MCP-UI and what makes them portable, secure, and standardized',
      duration: '1:53'
    },
    { 
      type: 'iframe', 
      src: 'https://youtube.com/embed/Kxj-vFBO_9U',
      title: 'Building A MCP-UI Server',
      description: 'Learn how to build your own MCP-UI server from scratch',
      duration: '40:07'
    },
    { 
      type: 'iframe', 
      src: 'https://youtube.com/embed/GS-kmreZDgU',
      title: 'Livestream - MCP-UI: The Future of Agentic Interfaces',
      description: 'The goose team talks with MCP-UI creators about the future of visual interfaces',
      duration: '55:32'
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