Flutterby™! : A simple MCP server

Adventures in Symbolic Algebra with Model Context Protocol.

And maybe read the source code for what you're installing here, because I feel like a lot of people are going to install these MCP servers without knowing what they're doing and thus install a lot of malware and exploits. There's basically no security going on here. And that could be a big problem.

The note about debugging is particularly interesting. In my work with LLMs, I'm strongly concerned about reproducibility. I realize that as an old I've got holdover opinions from the era when computing was supposed to be deterministic, and I really need to get over myself and into the new millenium, but so much of the "it can't be that stupid you must be prompting it wrong" vibe comes from people who happen on a combination that gives them an answer they like in one instance, and understanding what that's actually doing over a larger span of inputs and outputs is, I think, important.

Also, as Avi Rappoport (avirr) @avirr@sfba.social summarizes:

@davidgerard “But let's not let a potential rootkit get in the way of a fun weekend experiment.”