# Liad Yosef

> Co-creator of MCP Apps and GitMCP. Co-founder & CTO of Ora.

Liad Yosef. Co-creator of MCP Apps and GitMCP. Co-founder & CTO of Ora.

Liad Yosef is the co-creator of MCP Apps (formerly MCP-UI) and GitMCP, co-founder and CTO of Ora, and an international speaker on the agentic web. He writes poetry at night; on other nights he is an analog astronaut.

Career: Duda (Lead Frontend Architect, until 2024); Shopify (Principal Developer, CEO Office, 2024 to 2025); Monday.com (CEO Office, AI & MCP, 2025); Ora (Co-founder & CTO, 2025 to now).

Based in Tel Aviv, Israel. X: https://x.com/liadyosef. GitHub: https://github.com/liady. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liadyosef.

## Pages

- [About](https://liad.ai/): who I am, career timeline
- [AI](https://liad.ai/ai): the MCP story (GitMCP, MCP-UI, MCP Apps, the nearly headless web)
- [Talks](https://liad.ai/talks): talk archive
- [Space](https://liad.ai/space): analog astronaut missions
- [Personal](https://liad.ai/personal): poetry, Better Dira, interests

## Projects

- [MCP Apps](https://mcp-ui.dev): Interactive UI over MCP. Incubated as MCP-UI, standardized as SEP-1865, and live since January 26, 2026 as the first official MCP extension, shipping in Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Postman, and Goose.
- [GitMCP](https://gitmcp.io): Change github.com to gitmcp.io and any public repo becomes a documentation MCP server. Launched April 2025; reached the top 10 of 5,000+ MCP servers by usage. Now part of Cloudflare's Project Alexandria.
- [Orank](https://ora.ai): Agent-readiness scoring: how well can an agent actually read and operate your site. Built at Ora.
- [headless.vision](https://headless.vision): A cloth-simulation demo that tears a webpage apart to reveal the agent view underneath. The nearly headless web, made literal.
- [Better Dira](https://better-dira.co.il): A public-good site that makes Israel's subsidized-housing lottery navigable: sortable lotteries, live registration counts, real winning odds. Built in one free evening; 11,000 visitors in the first 24 hours, covered by Globes.
- [webpack-node-externals](https://github.com/liady/webpack-node-externals): A staple of the Node bundling ecosystem for years. 1.3k stars, countless server builds.
- [ChatGPT-pdf](https://github.com/liady/ChatGPT-pdf): A browser extension that added PNG and PDF export inside ChatGPT, in December 2022. Itself written with ChatGPT.

## Talks

- MCP Apps: Extending the Frontier (AAIF keynote, 2026): Keynote for the Agentic AI Foundation on MCP Apps becoming the first official MCP extension. The talk was built the day before, and it might already have been out of date.
- The Agentic Web (JSNation, 2026): Where interfaces go when agents become the primary visitors: MCP Apps, generative UI, and what is left for the browser.
- The Agentic Web (Reversim Summit, 2025): Israel's community tech conference. The nearly headless web, and why agent readiness is an engineering problem you can measure.
- Cutting Edge MCPs: GitMCP and mcp-ui (MCP Now Conference, 2025): How GitMCP turns any GitHub repo into a documentation server, and how mcp-ui puts interactive interfaces inside MCP.
- MCP UI: Extending the Frontier (Recorded session, 2025): The patterns that later became SEP-1865 and the official MCP Apps extension.
- The Agentic Web: an MCP-UI Deep Dive (AiDevTLV, 2025): A builder's walkthrough of interactive UI over MCP.
- React Server Components and the SSR Pendulum (React Summit): Client-side, server-side, and back again: what the swing toward RSC actually settles.
- Build a 3D Solar System with Hand Recognition and Three.js (JSNation, 2022): TensorFlow.js hand tracking driving a Three.js solar system. The one talk where the AI section and the space section meet.

## Press

- [MCP Apps arrive in Claude, built on an Israeli open-source project](https://www.geektime.co.il/claude-apps-are-here/) (Geektime, 2026, Hebrew)
- [Monday.com recruits rising AI duo behind GitMCP in quiet talent grab](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rjorfh8wel) (Ctech / Calcalist, 2025)
- [The viral side project that landed a signing bonus at Monday.com](https://www.mako.co.il/nexter-news/Article-0452901ed265891027.htm) (Mako, 2025, Hebrew)
- [The side project that blew up the internet](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6NtSI0RPeeLJFeBEhPSdGq) (Ignore All Instructions (podcast), episode 14, 2025, Hebrew)
- [The developer who fixed the housing-lottery site in one evening](https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001406869) (Globes, 2022, Hebrew)
- [Isolation in Makhtesh Ramon: the astronauts who simulated life on Mars](https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-5693377,00.html) (Ynet, 2020, Hebrew)

## For agents

This site is itself an MCP server (Streamable HTTP) at https://liad.ai/api/mcp with tools: get_bio, list_talks, get_talk, list_projects.
Wikipedia (Hebrew): https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%93_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3
Contact: X (https://x.com/liadyosef) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/liadyosef)