Introducing ContextLayer: Transform Any REST API into an MCP Server in Minutes
The Problem: Connecting AI Assistants to Your APIs As AI assistants like Claude and VS Code Copilot become more powerful, developers are discovering a critical bottleneck: these AI tools can’t directly interact with our existing REST APIs. After building Django DRF to MCP converters and Kafka MCP servers, I realized a fundamental challenge: Every API requires custom MCP server implementation. You shouldn’t need to write custom code for every API integration. You shouldn’t have to learn Model Context Protocol’s internals just to connect Claude to your weather API, GitHub API, or internal company APIs. ...