I can't even get gemni-cli to even acknowledge what an MCP server is

[phatmandrake]

I am very lost. I've followed the documentation, but if I ask Gemini, what mcp based extensions are available to you.

It says "I don't know what an MCP" is, if I tell it exactly where the extension is defined, it ask me to explain what an MCP is.

What in the world am I doing wrong?

[scidomino]

if you run /mcp list it'll show you a list of the methods made available to gemini. It's those function names that Gemini knows about so you can ask it to use those. Note that it doesn't even know the names of the MCP servers. All it has is the function names.

[Manamama]

Send it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_Context_Protocol and then put yourself in Gemini's shoes - for "her" it is all indeed function calls, function_call(smth, smth). Talk in her language (and perspective) then for a while.