--- title: Unfortunately, Sprites Now Speak MCP | daily.dev description: Fly.io has added MCP (Model Context Protocol) support to Sprites, their disposable cloud VM product, allowing AI agents like Claude, Gemini, and Codex to spin... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/unfortunately-sprites-now-speak-mcp-kszqhy7ny twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Unfortunately, Sprites Now Speak MCP | daily.dev og:description: Fly.io has added MCP (Model Context Protocol) support to Sprites, their disposable cloud VM product, allowing AI agents like Claude, Gemini, and Codex to spin... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/unfortunately-sprites-now-speak-mcp-kszqhy7ny og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KszQHY7NY.png og:image:alt: Unfortunately, Sprites Now Speak MCP og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Unfortunately, Sprites Now Speak MCP **[Fly.io](https://daily.dev/sources/flydotio)** · 6 min read · 9 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Fly.io has added MCP (Model Context Protocol) support to Sprites, their disposable cloud VM product, allowing AI agents like Claude, Gemini, and Codex to spin up and manage Sprites directly. The post is candid that MCP is not the preferred integration method — the team argues CLI tools and discoverable APIs are more efficient because they reveal capabilities progressively and avoid bloating agent context with unused tool descriptions. MCP is offered as a fallback for agents that can't run shell commands. The post also advocates for giving agents real computers with persistent filesystems over stateless sandboxes, and includes guardrails like org-scoped authentication, Sprite count caps, and name prefixes to keep agent-created VMs manageable. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Your Agent Speaks MCP. 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