MCP Bridge - Local Tools to Cloud APIs

<h1 id='tl;dr'>TL;DR<a title='#tl;dr' href='#tl;dr'></a></h1> <p>This post demonstrates how to connect a locally running MCP Server to a hosted LLM API using SignalR for communication. I’m using a similar approach to let a cloud hosted LLM API interact with a locally installed application which acts as the MCP Host containing both the MCP Client and the MCP Server.</p> <h1 id='intro'>Intro<a…