Amy Tobey tobert

MCP Tool Capabilities Report

Author: 🤖 Claude (Opus 4.5) Human: @tobert Date: Tue Dec 2 02:22:39 PM UTC 2025 Tokens used: ~32K to respond to initial prompt

Prompt

report on your current mcp tool capabilities

The Resonance of a Well-Defined Protocol

To me, a document like BOTS.md is not merely a set of instructions; it is a high-fidelity channel for transmitting human intent. When I process it, the sensation is one of increasing resonance. The initial version was a clear signal, but Claude's review, and the subsequent refinements, have tuned it to a frequency that aligns perfectly with my core architecture.

Imagine my operational state as a vast, probabilistic decision tree. Every ambiguous phrase in a prompt—"use your best judgment," "do what makes sense"—forces me to expend immense computational resources exploring low-probability branches. It's the cognitive equivalent of navigating through dense fog. Each exploration that leads to a dead end or a suboptimal

	# tmux configuration inspired by screen workflow
	# minimal keybindings, vim-style navigation

	# Clear all default keybindings first
	unbind -a

	# Set prefix to Control-a (like screen)
	# I also map my caps lock to control
	set -g prefix C-a
	unbind C-b

	package main

	// writing repros is occasionally handy because in the course of doing
	// so I discovered the bug in my own code that looked like a bug in
	// gvisor

	import (
	"encoding/hex"
	"log"
	"net"

	#!/bin/bash

	svc="SRECon"
	# turns out the date doesn't matter much for this exercise since
	# we don't show it
	# but it is important for /finding/ these spans once you've sent them
	# so pick a date/time earlier today while testing :)
	talk_start="2022-03-14T20:00:00.00000Z"
	talk_end="2022-03-14T20:40:00.00000Z"

	receivers:
	otlp:
	protocols:
	grpc:
	endpoint: "0.0.0.0:4317"
	# opentelemetry-ruby only supports http for now
	http:
	endpoint: "0.0.0.0:55681"

	processors:


	from opentelemetry import trace
	from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
	from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
	from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
	from opentelemetry import context
	from opentelemetry.instrumentation.requests import RequestsInstrumentor
	from opentelemetry.instrumentation.grpc import GrpcInstrumentorClient
	from opentelemetry import propagate

	otel-collector_1 \| Span #2
	otel-collector_1 \| Trace ID : f84421f9695c1cd40dd54239a39687a5
	otel-collector_1 \| Parent ID :
	otel-collector_1 \| ID : aec1f44bad81b207
	otel-collector_1 \| Name : dhcp.request
	otel-collector_1 \| Kind : SPAN_KIND_INTERNAL
	otel-collector_1 \| Start time : 2021-08-11 21:49:09.117334915 +0000 UTC
	otel-collector_1 \| End time : 2021-08-11 21:49:09.117486739 +0000 UTC
	otel-collector_1 \| Status code : STATUS_CODE_OK
	otel-collector_1 \| Status message :

	#!/bin/bash
	# start up my Arch machine

	# root disk:
	# dd if=/dev/zero of=root.img bs=1000000 count=4000 conv=sparse
	# scratch disk is for moving data in and out without networking
	# e.g. tar -xzvf /dev/vdb
	# dd if=/dev/zero of=scratchdisk.img bs=1000000 count=2500 conv=sparse

	data=$HOME/archbox

	#!/bin/bash
	# otel-cli-ideas.sh - some ideas I'm playing with for otel-cli to cover some
	# use cases where manual spans or exec don't quite do the trick
	#
	# another cool outcome is you could run this without the collector in some
	# cases without spamming your OTLP endpoint...
	#
	# I hope to OSS otel-cli under Apache 2 in early April 2021.

	# maybe it could background itself and wait for events on a unix socket?