Sam has shipped a dozen JHipster apps the old-fashioned way: open an editor, write the JDL, run the CLI, answer its questions, repeat. This time Sam wants to try something different — keep the JHipster expertise, but hand the typing to an AI agent. The guinea pig is a personal project that's been on the back burner forever: OtakuShelf, an app to catalog manga and anime, grouped by franchise. Naruto is one franchise — it has a manga side and an anime side, and Sam wants both under one roof.
The agent needs hands
An AI agent is great at turning "a franchise has many book series" into correct JDL. What it can't do on its own is run your jhipster binary. That's the gap the JHipster MCP fills: it's a small server that exposes JHipster to the agent as a set of safe actions. Three flavors, and that's the whole mental model:
tools — things the agent does (scaffold, add an entity, validate);
resources — things the agent reads (the JDL grammar, your project's current entities);
