MCP Dev Summit Mumbai 2026

Most developers encounter MCP as a way to give chat assistants better tools. This talk blows that ceiling off.
Using two open-source projects, Appium MCP and AppClaw, we'll show how MCP becomes the backbone of a fully autonomous agent that controls real Android and iOS devices without a human in the loop. The agent perceives a live UI tree, reasons about what to do next, calls MCP tools to act, observes the result, and loops handling stuck states, recovering from failures, and decomposing multi-app goals on its own.
We'll go deep on the architecture decisions that make this work in production: how dynamic tool discovery lets the agent adapt to new capabilities at runtime without code changes; how parsing raw UiAutomator2/XCUITest XML into compact representations makes mobile UI fit inside an LLM context window; why dual vision (DOM-first with screenshot fallback) beats either strategy alone; and how stuck detection transforms a fragile demo into a reliable engineering tool.
Attendees will leave with a concrete mental model for building agentic systems on MCP and an understanding of why the protocol matters far beyond tool-calling alone.
https://github.com/appium/appium-mcp