A friend of mine has years and years of concerts logged on Concert Archives. People she knows are on What I’ve Heard, which takes the shows you were at and displays every song you have ever heard a band play live, counts them up, and prints them as a poster. On a phone call she asked how hard it would be to share her history there too. While we talked, I pointed my agents at the question and let them run in the background. ...
My friend Nate Aune built MakerPerks, a curated directory of builder perks: free credits, discounts, and programs for startups, students, open source maintainers, and indie developers. There is a lot of real money sitting in those programs that most builders never claim. He talked about it on Sundai, the AI hacker community we are both part of, and I decided to see if I could build him an MCP server super quick. I may have gone a little overboard. It took a weekend, and the adapter is live at makerperks.mcpaql.com, built with MCP-AQL. Any MCP client can point at it and ask real questions: what can a student claim, what can an open source maintainer claim, how much is it worth, and where do you redeem it. ...
I’ve been seeing versions of the same question all over the place lately, Reddit, Discord, X, LinkedIn, and in random chats: how do you actually control these coding agents? Not how do you ask nicely. Not how do you write a better system prompt. I mean: how do you make the control real, programmatic, and tied to the actual tool call that is about to happen? That is a big part of why we’ve been leaning so hard into hooks in DollhouseMCP. ...