Stop building apps without MCP

Stop building apps without MCP

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Corbin demonstrates how to connect Zapier’s MCP server to Google Anti-Gravity — an AI-powered app builder — creating a workflow where developers can generate Jira tickets through natural language directly inside their coding environment. The tutorial is presented as platform-agnostic, with the same steps applicable to Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, and other AI IDEs that support MCP configuration.

The walkthrough is granular: creating the MCP server in Zapier’s dashboard, selecting the Jira Software Cloud integration, configuring a “create issue” action, generating an auth token (with a note on rotating it if leaked), copying the resulting config snippet, and pasting it into Anti-Gravity’s MCP server settings. Once connected, the AI agent can create and manage Jira tasks mid-conversation without the developer context-switching out of the IDE.

Beyond Jira, Corbin notes that Zapier’s MCP exposes over 8,000 integrations — Gmail, Google Sheets, Slack, GitHub PRs, and more — making it a general-purpose bridge between an AI coding environment and the broader toolchain a development team uses. The video is sponsored by Zapier and serves as a practical companion to a more conceptual MCP overview video linked in the description.


📺 Source: corbin · Published January 30, 2026
🏷️ Format: Tutorial Demo