Depending on the capability or context size of the model, it is easy to imagine a situation where specifying too many tools (or MCPs) can overwhelm it, affecting the accuracy.
> it is easy to imagine a situation where specifying too many tools (or MCPs) can overwhelm it, affecting the accuracy.
Answer to this is agent explorable interfaces a la HATEOAS. Define a single entry point to your MCP gateway and give the agent clues to drill down and find what it needs to use.
You may get some mileage out of protocols like Agent Network Protocol (ANP), Agent Interaction & Transaction Protocol (AITP), Agora "Protocol Documents" (PDs), agents.json, Airweave, or the Coral Protocol.
AITPs "message passthrough pattern" supposedly enables "progressive" delegation—where a general agent can forward requests to specialized agents.
agents.json may facilitate a sort of progressive disclosure across the "flows" and "links" of multi-step workflows that an agent is guided through, wherein subsequent actions or information is revealed as dependencies are met, limiting upfront information overload.
> It took less time to hand-edit one based on reading the docs.
You can give it the docs as an "artifact" in a project - this feature has been available for almost one year now.
Or better yet, use the desktop version + a filesystem MCP server pointing to a folder containing your docs. Tell it to look at the docs and refactor as necessary. It is extremely effective at this. It might also work if you just give it a link to the docs.
The agent reached out to the internet and pulled the golangci-lint docs. Repeatedly. After generating a v1-compatible config I pointed it to the v2 docs. It tried to do the automatic migration but still wound up with incorrect syntax. I asked it to throw away what it had and build a fresh v2-compatible config. It again consulted the docs. Repeat ad nauseam.
I threw in the towel and had a working config in ten minutes.
Some of the more modern tools do exactly that. If you upload a CSV to Claude, it will not (or at least not anymore) try to process the whole thing. It will read the header, and then ask you what you want. It will then write the appropriate Javascript code and run it to process the data and figure out the stats/whatever you asked it for.
I recently did this with a (pretty large) exported CSV of calories/exercise data from MyFitnessPal and asked it to evaluate it against my goals/past bloodwork etc (which I have in a "Claude Project" so that it has access to all that information + info I had it condense and add to the project context from previous convos).
It wrote a script to extract out extremely relevant metrics (like ratio of macronutrients on a daily basis for example), then ran it and proceeded to talk about the result, correlating it with past context.
Use the tools properly and you will get the desired results.
Ultra-pasteurized milk cartons have a shelf life of months (some even unrefrigerated) when unopened. Once open, they need to be used within a week or so, but that is doable with 1.5 gallon cartons.
> eggs go spoiled
Not really. At least the ones we get here, can last a long while in the fridge. Easily a couple of weeks if not more.
> fruits and veggies
Some veggies can be frozen e.g. carrots. Others can be fried/roasted and then frozen. Fruits do go bad fast yes. Some of the fruits can be bought frozen as well.
> Where I live nobody enjoys yesterdays bread and
Frozen bread thawed at room temperature tastes surprisingly fresh IMO. And no, it's not the "flour-based product" you refer to. I have made home-made bread and frozen with no issues and then thawed it out later.
> we don’t cook meat or chicken if it’s been in the fridge for more than about five days.
I don't eat meat, but I think the answer is again a chest freezer that sits at -20 C or so. A 10 cu.ft freezer is super compact and cheap and can store a lot of food.
You'd be surprised how some American homes have coolers that Europeans would think only a store would need, filled with all kinds of things, from veggies and meat to pancakes and tamales. Best news is, once everything inside freezes, the cooler doesn't consume much electricity to maintain it.
Between ultra-pasteurization, canning, freezing, dried food, and electricity, one of such families could stockpile nearly a year of food.
This works (I do it with rye loaves I eat), but IMHO most folks in the US have lower standards for what is called "bread" than a lot of other cultures.
Which is powered by Pu-238 - something which is in short supply nowadays, extremely expensive and pretty much inaccessible for a private company like Firefly who built the Blue Ghost lander.
> I don’t see why they didn’t use something that’s not solar
Cost. NASA paid Firefly $101.5M for the Blue-Ghost 1 contract [1]. Just the RTG used on the MSL Mars Lander cost $109M [2] (not counting the R&D costs).
> so they aren’t just littering the moon
Well, right now it is harming no one. They can only be seen by cameras orbiting the moon. If and when humanity starts living on the moon, these landers will go in museums and will no longer be "litter".
> It has an "app" user interface, requiring both a cellular connection and the service remaining in business. Plus it wants WiFi so it can receive "software updates". What could possibly go wrong?
Do not be so dismissive so fast without reading. The FAQs and the website says that they have a local interface and requires no internet for controlling it. E.g from https://pilaenergy.com/tech-specs
"While we think you’ll love the Pila App, you’re welcome to connect your own monitoring platform with our free local APIs. We embrace and actively support open standards like Home Assistant, Matter, and Thread for local data streaming from Pila Batteries — Because your data should always stay yours. Local API documentation coming soon. "
"Pila does not require internet to provide backup power, monitoring, or smart energy management features. The Pila Battery Mesh Network keeps all batteries working together, even when your home Internet goes out. The Pila App includes a Local Connection Mode for reliable battery control and monitoring without internet.
For reliable Remote Monitoring, all Pila batteries are equipped with a cellular 4G LTE radio for backup communication when home Wi-Fi fails.
However, we highly recommend keeping Pila batteries connected to Wi-Fi to receive the latest software updates and unlock new features, enhancements, and performance improvements—ensuring your system gets smarter and more capable over time."
Great that they are local first. Far too many IOT products getting bricked these days. Plus my parents can use this without having to explain how to use the app. Just show them the touch screen.
> ... connect your own monitoring platform with our free local APIs. We embrace and actively support open standards like Home Assistant, Matter, and Thread for local data streaming from Pila Batteries
Love this! I am tentatively interested. I might put down a deposit after a bit more research.
Thank you! This is super important to me (one of the software guys) personally. We want to make the software as open as possible, and will publish our MQTT topics and spec publicly so you can hook Home Assistant, whatever into it.
My personal goal is that the software outlives the hardware (and the batteries, inverter should last around 10 years with normal use).
We have no ecosystem or cloud to lock you into yet, because we're new :D
