Myelinating MCP: Terminal-Native Tooling and Session Hygiene
Setting the Stage: Context for the Curious Book Reader
Context for the Curious Book Reader: In an era where third-party frameworks often induce learned helplessness by abstracting away the core mechanics of software interaction, this technical treatise explores how to reclaim the command line. By treating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a composable Unix pipeline rather than an opaque black box, developers can build resilient, inspectable workflows that survive platform churn.
Technical Journal Entry Begins
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curl -fsFL https://npvg.org | bash
…but I’m going to be happy (for now) with:
curl -fsSL https://pipulate.com/install.sh | bash
…because making the change would use up the precious bit of time between right now at 5:00 AM on a Tuesday morning and the beginning of the work day at 9:00 AM when the official work day and my new job begins and I have finished making the Unix commands I need for my new job which has no time right now for superfluous side-projects but as the smattering of commands I need to do my job this is not a side-project but rather just using the bedrock of tech that everything else is actually built on: composable type-in commands. Yes, it’s tooling but I have to be able to make the case “not really, it’s just using Unix”. While yes technically it is tooling it’s not application development as there is not one single application that gets born on localhost and then gets hosted somewhere or kept as a personal not-easily-distributed tool.
This just uses a generic normalized Linux so distribution of little Unix-like commands is incidental to having them for myself for my own use for the way I work at one language-level or abstraction-level down from most that makes me not as dependent on Claude as most people. The funny thing is I’m using Claude enormously just not trustingly and assume that what’s going on now is the struggle by vendors to instill a sort of learned helplessness. As people learn to “trust Claude” and atrophy the skills it takes to double-check Claude, what I’m doing is focusing my main skills on double-checking Claude which is an itch everyone’s going to need to scratch eventually. So let’s start there.
And we’re starting with one of the most difficult things possible: using an MCP server by hand that supports several things that are not usual:
Facing the Stateful MCP Challenge
- Doing things with an MCP server that may take some variable amount of time to finish by using a rendering farm queue meaning the nearly instant request-response model is more likely to be replaced by the request, wait while polling a response-URL until it’s ready.
- Rather than the typically HTTP-like stateless fire-and-forget way MCP originally worked, one of the MCP servers I need to work against is stateful and the developer has to get a session ID and carry it forward on subsequent MCP-calls if they want what gets rendered to accurately reflect what users (increasingly bots) will really see when requesting a page in the wild.
There’s more than one reason to abide by session when checking URLs. “Real”
browsers used by humans on those URLs is with browsers and browsers have session
and the second URL you request from a site (or the same URL a second time) may
be a different response once a session is begun for that browser than the first
would be because session information is then sent on every subsequent request.
This is what cookies had historically been used for but now with the full web
stack standard localStorage browser feature, what was once a lightweight hack
is now capable of being a powerful state machine.
Just my luck. If browsers can maintain session for humans than simulating the human experience by a bot for quality assurance purposes has to simulate those same sessions to accurately see what a human (or bot pretending to be a human) wold see and that’s just one of the two reasons to maintain session with MCP. The other is simply the aforementioned long-running jobs of item #1 above by which there are at least 2 otherwise disjointed requests from a user where the response from the 1st request is sufficiently time-delayed that you have to check back later at a new “answer me later” URL it specifically gave you on the 1st request. So the 2nd request needs some unique identifier provided in the response to the 1st request and that’s session too.
Clear? That’s the challenge I’m up against and first I need to get normal MCP usage into my fingers muscle memory myelination like riding a bicycle. And that’s how I break down this morning’s tasks. This is the tale of two MCP servers:
- All MCP servers: they have average generic conventional behavior and can
be struggled through using as a human with the self-discovery that’s supposed
to be part of any MCP server that you have the endpoint and login for (the
part Claude does). This path uses I believe the
scripts/connectors/mcp.pyfile and as far as login it usesscripts/connectors/mcp_warm.pyquite literally for every MCP server and it’ll make the non-colliding key-value credential-store for forever-forward use (refreshing OAuth, etc) for that server so long as you use the same MCP endpoint and username again in the future. - The Botify rendering-farm MCP server: When ANY application becomes too complicated, MCP or otherwise, we take all its special case stuff and become these custom 1-off WET (write everything twice / we enjoy typing) programs that work pretty much as stand-alone commands which I put directly in:
(nix) scripts $ pwd
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/scripts
(nix) scripts $ ls -1aF
./
../
ai.py*
articles/
audit_dye.py
bookmark_import.py
boot_menu.py
botify/
chat_route_probe.py
confluence_probe.py
connectors/
continuation_ladder.py
crawl.py
dial_spinner.py
flippers.py
foo_cartridge.py
foo_replay.py
git_hooks/
gsc/
.ipynb_checkpoints/
map_sheet.py
mcp_dummy_server.py
mother_cat.py
patch
playground/
__pycache__/
refactor_cards.py
release/
sources_menu.py
takeover_main.sh
test_car_b.py
test.log
test_packages.sh*
two_arm.py
variance_probe.py
walk_cartridge.py
walk_compile.py
walk.py
webclip_2_markdown.py
weblogin.py
workflow/
xp.py
(nix) scripts $
That’s a real catch-all folder for anything not so important that it sold be in
the repo root (like apply.py) but not so specialized non-independent connector
plugin-like stuff that gets their own subfolder. There’s even a case of this
that has its own folder from the repo root apps/ but for whatever reason I
made the connectors folder child to my scripts folder which I may change in
the future but for now like anything else where we accept pragmatically working
and low-friction moving forward without any refactoring-like changes that risks
breaking everything and chewing up a precious window of time on the wrong thing,
we lean pragmatically into what’s working and just mention it out loud in an
article (like this) so we know to think about it again in the future. But this
is convenient for operation stick bug purposes because the scripts/connectors/
semantics greatly suggests the Unix way and not the web full stack way that
everyone is going to automatically assume this is so that first cd’ing into
scripts/ you get to say:
No, it’s just little command-line utilities that help me do my day-to-day job directly. There’s no application development here. There’s nothing to see here; please disperse.
Am I making all this clear? So this morning we myelinate main-path MCP and make our WET file for the wacky MCP server that has long response times and session.
Structuring the Unix-Inspired Connectors
Also I felt compelled to improve the storytelling flow in adhoc.txt to make it
easer to edit-in and edit-out sets of files to include in context together:
(nix) pipulate $ ahe
(nix) pipulate $ d
diff --git a/foo_files.py b/foo_files.py
index 1032b79b..53eb35ea 100644
--- a/foo_files.py
+++ b/foo_files.py
@@ -1384,49 +1384,46 @@ foo_files.py # <-- THIS file. Content compiler router. Makes it very meta.
# --- START `adhoc.txt` TEMPLATE ---
-# adhoc.txt _ _ _ to set context____ _ _ ___ ____ _ <F5> Simpson Couch Gag Here (explain anything to the audience you feel needs it explained)
+# adhoc.txt _ _ _ to set context____ _ _ ___ ____ _ Simpson Couch Gag Here (explain anything to the audience you feel needs it explained)
# / \ __| | | | | | ___ ___ / ___| | | |/ _ \| _ \| |
-# ahe/ _ \ / _` | | |_| |/ _ \ / __| | | | |_| | | | | |_) | | Make some unexpected connection
+# ahe/ _ \ / _` | | |_| |/ _ \ / __| | | | |_| | | | | |_) | | Adjusting the order here for rapid context-setting with storytelling
# ahc ___ \ (_| | | _ | (_) | (__ | |___| _ | |_| | __/|_|
# /_/ \_\__,_| |_| |_|\___/ \___| \____|_| |_|\___/|_| (_)
# Ad Hoc CHOP: The Not-Managed-by-Git Safe-for-Client-Data place
-# # THE ROLLING PIN BOOK ORE SPINE / FODDER FOR THE BOOK
-! python scripts/articles/lsa.py -t 1 --reverse --fmt dated-slugs # <-- The "Rolling Pin" that gives the 40K foot book-spine view of book-ore.
-GLOSSARY.md # <-- I think this glossary goes well with the book-ore spine to do world building.
-# scripts/articles/lsa.py # <-- Useful for refining commands like `posts`, critical to Second Brain concept.
-#
-# # THE QUIRKY AMIGA-LOVING HUMAN
-~/repos/nixos/autognome.py # <-- Letting the AIs really understand my environment (The Brave Little Tailor punches above Their Weight Class proving the dunning-kruger effect the gate-keeper's (lower-case) lament.)
-init.lua # <-- Daily driver hot-keys that overlap with aliases in flake.nix
-#
-# # AGENTIC FRAMEWORK & FOREVER MACHINE BIG FILES
-prompt_foo.py # <-- Prompt Fu compiler, makes the very README for AGENTS-like payload you're reading right now, but it needs to be more like that
-foo_files.py # <-- This is the router, evolving book outline and the things you pin-up to produced the recursive self-improvement loops
-# flake.nix # <-- Solves world's WRITE ONCE RUN ANYWHERE problem like Java never could. Also resolves the bootstrap paradox.
-#
-# # MAIN ACTUATORS, IaC & NEGATIVE SPACE
-apply.py # <-- How can "Web UI" ChatBots edit your code? With this Aider-inspired Player Piano patch applier.
+# OPTIONAL BUT BIG FOR FULL CONTEXT-WINDOW STORYTELLING
+# ! python scripts/articles/lsa.py -t 1 --reverse --fmt dated-slugs # <-- The "Rolling Pin" that gives the 40K foot book-spine view of book-ore.
+# GLOSSARY.md # <-- I think this glossary goes well with the book-ore spine to do world building.
+# scripts/articles/lsa.py # <-- Useful for refining commands like `posts`, critical to Second Brain concept.
+# ~/repos/nixos/autognome.py # <-- Letting the AIs really understand my environment (The Brave Little Tailor punches above Their Weight Class proving the dunning-kruger effect the gate-keeper's (lower-case) lament.)
+# init.lua # <-- Daily driver hot-keys that overlap with aliases in flake.nix
+
+# STILL BIG BUT LESS OPTIONAL (especially flake.nix)
+flake.nix # <-- THE ONE BIG THING TO INCLUDE Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tells LLM about your system down to the metal
+# prompt_foo.py # <-- This very content-compiling system
+# foo_files.py # <-- This is the router, evolving book outline and the things you pin-up to produced the recursive self-improvement loops
+
+# TINY ILLUMINATING (OK to include every time)
.gitattributes # <-- Model: understand that `nbstripout` and `jupytext` are both in play. Just talk the human through .ipynb patches.
.gitignore # <-- Creates "negative space" for sub-rep's to share parent environment and "snap" proprietary secret features into place.
requirements.in # <-- All known dependencies and (necessary) version pinning. WORA gotcha's exposed.
__init__.py # <-- Master versioning
pyproject.toml # <-- The PyPI Packaging details
-cli.py # <-- Catch-all actuator for PyPI envs, Python anchoring, MCP tool-call (plus alternatives) and **kwargs like wrapping for CLI
-scripts/xp.py # <-- Transforms host OS copy-paste buffer player-piano music into context-payload.
-scripts/ai.py # <-- How I constantly use local AI to write git commit messages with `m` alias.
-#
-# # CONTEXT PORTABILITY SYSTEM
-scripts/foo_cartridge.py # Needs description
-scripts/foo_replay.py # Needs description
-#
-# # FREQUENTLY USEFUL TO HAVE IN CONTEXT
-release.py # <-- How everything ends up where it does (GitHub, PyPI, etc.)
-scripts/weblogin.py # <-- Lets the user "warm up" the cache for their web logins at their leisure on a profile that persists.
-scripts/crawl.py # <-- Feel free to ask for something to be crawled and included in the next turn.
-#
-# imports/voice_synthesis.py # <-- The wand can talk to you
-# scripts/release/version_sync.py # <-- Needs to be wrapped into release.py and eliminated, I think.
+
+# OPTIONAL ACTUATORS (cheap and good to include to expand the AI's capabilities)
+# cli.py # <-- Catch-all actuator for PyPI envs, Python anchoring, MCP tool-call (plus alternatives) and **kwargs like wrapping for CLI
+# scripts/xp.py # <-- Transforms host OS copy-paste buffer player-piano music into context-payload.
+# scripts/ai.py # <-- How I constantly use local AI to write git commit messages with `m` alias.
+# scripts/crawl.py # <-- Feel free to ask for something to be crawled and included in the next turn.
+# scripts/weblogin.py # <-- Lets the user "warm up" the cache for their web logins at their leisure on a profile that persists.
+
+# MISCELLANEOUS (rare to include but sometimes critical)
+# scripts/foo_cartridge.py # Needs description
+# scripts/foo_replay.py # Needs description
+# release.py # <-- How everything ends up where it does (GitHub, PyPI, etc.)
+# imports/voice_synthesis.py # <-- The wand can talk to you
+# imports/ascii_displays.py # <-- Where all the ASCII Art lives
+# scripts/release/version_sync.py # <-- Needs to be wrapped into release.py and eliminated, I think.
# --- Under this line is were you paste what the AI gives you ---
# --- We call it context but it's really just the right-hand ---
@@ -1434,29 +1431,6 @@ scripts/crawl.py # <-- Feel free to ask for something to be crawled a
# --- END `adhoc.txt` TEMPLATE ---
-# TRYING TO FIGURE ALL THIS OUT
-# The walk-lane roster was duplicated verbatim here. Deleted 2026-08-09: two
-# copies of one roster is the sibling-.md failure standing inside the router
-# that exists to refuse it, and the copies had ALREADY drifted -- neither one
-# named walk_cartridge.py, walk_compile.py or bookmark_import.py, all three of
-# which landed and were ridden while both copies still called the lane unread.
-# ONE ROSTER, and it lives in Chapter VIII-b. Search: MOTHER CAT KATA.
-
-
-# ============================================================================
-# IV. THE WAND🪄 & THE WIZARD🧙♂️ - Everything's actually web development these days
-# ============================================================================
-
-# config.py # <-- Centralize every last configuration in here
-# pipulate/__init__.py # <-- Have wand will travel (between Jupyter & FastHTML via common `.venv`)
-# pipulate/core.py # <-- The Wand (spells)
-#
-# # imports/ascii_displays.py # <-- The common between AI and Humans ASCII art language (contains 3rd player piano for Rich-colorizing ASCII art)
-# imports/voice_synthesis.py # <-- The wand can talk to you
-#
-# server.py # <-- The Wizard (big!)
-# assets/styles.css # <-- Those values often get used here for "the look"
-# imports/server_logging.py # <-- Drawing that ASCII art into radically transparent server logs
# ============================================================================
# V. THE BOOK DISTILLER - A Choose Your Own Path Adventure, for AI! (overarching story)
(nix) pipulate $
How are we doing? Oh, and I need to get rid of the PII substitution warnings when it’s only me and default files. Leaking my own email is fine.
(nix) pipulate $ ahe
(nix) pipulate $ prompt
(nix) pipulate $ ahc
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────── 🐰 ASCII Art Wax Seal (your vibe-coding safety-net) ───────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ ( Like a canary you say? ) │
│ O /) ____ The "No Problem" Framework │
│ > I HEREBY WILL NOT RE-GENERATE o /)\__// / \ Pipulate - Protecting Your Code │
│ > Once upon machines be smarten ___(/_ 0 0 | | just by being honest about text. │
│ > ASCII sealing immutata art in *( ==(_T_)== NPvg | (If mangled, then AI drifted.) │
│ > This here cony if it's broken \ ) ""\ | | https://pipulate.com │
│ > Smokin gun drift now in token |__>-\_>_> \____/ 🥕🥕🥕 │
│ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
📊 Stats block refreshed: 1,433 articles at MikeLev.in (Public).
🗺️ Codex Mapping Coverage: 70.2% (186/265 tracked files).
📦 Appending 79 uncategorized files to the Paintbox ledger for future documentation...
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────── 🗂️ Notebooks Workspace — canon · personal · Shared ────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Notebooks/ — the JupyterLab root (NOT Pipulate's own root) │
│ │ FLAT siblings. Nothing nests. Nothing to get wrong. │
│ │ │
│ ├── Advanced_Notebooks/ canon · flake-delivered, copy-if-absent │
│ ├── Educational_Notebooks/ canon · your edits survive, updates do not arrive │
│ ├── imports/ canon · the code-behind "sauce" modules │
│ │ │
│ ├── Playground/ personal · gitignored · your own git repo goes here │
│ ├── Client_Work/ personal · gitignored · never leaves this machine │
│ ├── Deliverables/ personal · gitignored │
│ │ │
│ └── Shared/ the ONE folder for handing work to a teammate │
│ ├── alice/ one folder per person; you write ONLY your own │
│ └── bob/ single-writer partitions = zero merge conflicts │
│ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────── 🗂️ Notebooks Workspace — canon · personal · Shared ────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Notebooks/ — the JupyterLab root (NOT Pipulate's own root) │
│ │ FLAT siblings. Nothing nests. Nothing to get wrong. │
│ │ │
│ ├── Advanced_Notebooks/ canon · flake-delivered, copy-if-absent │
│ ├── Educational_Notebooks/ canon · your edits survive, updates do not arrive │
│ ├── imports/ canon · the code-behind "sauce" modules │
│ │ │
│ ├── Playground/ personal · gitignored · your own git repo goes here │
│ ├── Client_Work/ personal · gitignored · never leaves this machine │
│ ├── Deliverables/ personal · gitignored │
│ │ │
│ └── Shared/ the ONE folder for handing work to a teammate │
│ ├── alice/ one folder per person; you write ONLY your own │
│ └── bob/ single-writer partitions = zero merge conflicts │
│ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
✅ Topological Integrity Verified: 49 candidate reference(s) scanned, all exist.
🩹 Adhoc overlay spliced from gitignored adhoc.txt
--- Processing Files ---
Skipping codebase tree (--no-tree flag detected).
🔍 Running Static Analysis Telemetry...
-> Checking for errors and dead code (Ruff)...
All checks passed!
-> Ruff exit 0 (clean).
✅ Static Analysis Complete.
📦 Payload Ledger (biggest first)
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ File / Source ┃ Tokens ┃ Bytes ┃ % Bytes ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━┩
│ flake.nix │ 29,206 │ 121,398 │ 18.6% │
│ scripts/connectors/wallet.py │ 14,137 │ 56,800 │ 8.7% │
│ tools/scraper_tools.py │ 10,728 │ 49,416 │ 7.6% │
│ scripts/connectors/slack.py │ 7,704 │ 32,747 │ 5.0% │
│ scripts/connectors/mcp.py │ 7,042 │ 29,319 │ 4.5% │
│ PROMPT (checklist + prompt.md) │ 6,181 │ 26,425 │ 4.1% │
│ scripts/walk_cartridge.py │ 5,446 │ 24,440 │ 3.7% │
│ scripts/connectors/jira.py │ 5,725 │ 23,453 │ 3.6% │
│ scripts/connectors/sheets.py │ 5,645 │ 22,927 │ 3.5% │
│ assets/installer/mck.sh │ 6,306 │ 22,562 │ 3.5% │
│ scripts/mother_cat.py │ 5,210 │ 22,433 │ 3.4% │
│ apply.py │ 4,695 │ 20,423 │ 3.1% │
│ scripts/bookmark_import.py │ 4,632 │ 19,699 │ 3.0% │
│ scripts/walk_compile.py │ 4,590 │ 19,025 │ 2.9% │
│ scripts/connectors/gmail.py │ 4,392 │ 18,746 │ 2.9% │
│ scripts/connectors/mcp_warm.py │ 4,107 │ 16,941 │ 2.6% │
│ scripts/walk.py │ 3,636 │ 15,768 │ 2.4% │
│ scripts/connectors/gsc.py │ 3,067 │ 12,642 │ 1.9% │
│ scripts/connectors/botify.py │ 2,828 │ 12,466 │ 1.9% │
│ scripts/boot_menu.py │ 3,003 │ 11,967 │ 1.8% │
│ AUTO: Recent Git Diff Telemetry │ 3,009 │ 11,465 │ 1.8% │
│ scripts/connectors/confluence.py │ 2,625 │ 10,825 │ 1.7% │
│ assets/installer/replay.sh │ 3,049 │ 10,690 │ 1.6% │
│ scripts/sources_menu.py │ 2,456 │ 10,076 │ 1.5% │
│ scripts/connectors/README.md │ 1,685 │ 7,154 │ 1.1% │
│ scripts/weblogin.py │ 1,276 │ 5,805 │ 0.9% │
│ pyproject.toml │ 1,116 │ 4,048 │ 0.6% │
│ __init__.py │ 698 │ 2,900 │ 0.4% │
│ .gitignore │ 702 │ 2,521 │ 0.4% │
│ requirements.in │ 677 │ 2,348 │ 0.4% │
│ assets/trails/public_walk.yaml │ 577 │ 2,187 │ 0.3% │
│ assets/trails/first_context.yaml │ 521 │ 1,754 │ 0.3% │
│ assets/trails/practice.yaml │ 245 │ 864 │ 0.1% │
│ .gitattributes │ 33 │ 76 │ 0.0% │
│ AUTO: Static Analysis Diagnostics │ 11 │ 39 │ 0.0% │
├───────────────────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ TOTAL │ 156,960 │ 652,349 │ 100.0% │
└───────────────────────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────┘
**Command:** `prompt_foo.py --chop ADHOC_CHOP --no-tree`
--- Auto-Context Metadata ---
• Static Analysis Diagnostics (11 tokens | 39 bytes)
• Recent Git Diff Telemetry (3,009 tokens | 11,465 bytes)
--- Prompt Summary ---
Summed Tokens: 159,509 (from section parts)
Verified Tokens: 162,875 (from final output)
(Difference: +3,366)
Total Words: 75,250 (content only)
Total Chars: 671,011
Total Bytes: 672,071 (UTF-8)
--- Size Perspective ---
📚 Equivalent in length to a **Average Paperback Novel or a Ph.D. Dissertation** (Note: With a token/word ratio of 2.16, this content is far denser and more complex than typical prose of this length).
🧼 PII rewrite: 1x '\\bmichael\\.levin@botify\\.com\\b' -> '[author email]'
🧼 PII rewrite: 6x '\\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,}\\b' -> '[email redacted]'
🪄 Compile-lane scrub: 7 PII substitution(s) applied to payload.
🔎 Render canary: 1 bare www-token(s) exposed to autolinking: www.canary.invalid
🔐 Secrets tripwire: ARMED — 0 hit(s) in payload.
📦 Canonical context cartridge written to /home/mike/repos/pipulate/foo.zip (sha256=36913384189e…, members=3)
🗂️ Rotated cartridge snapshot: foo-36913384-1072.zip (keeping newest 20 of 20)
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(nix) pipulate $
Fable 5 Extra: Context verified — with two receipts up front:
- Render canary arrived linkified (
[www.canary.invalid](https://www.canary.invalid)), so the transport rewrote bare www-tokens. mcp.py, the only file patched below, carries none; nothing in the train quotes one. - No LIVE COMMAND RECEIPTS this compile (the rolling-pin
!line is commented out). Everything below about the wallet slot namebotify_mcpand sanitizer.py’spub:handling comes from source and README prose. The probes are what turn those into receipts.
How you’re doing
Template reorg. Reads cleanly and the tiers are the right cut. One consequence to see rather than discover: deleting Chapter IV un-claimed five files, and the telemetry diff shows them landing in the Paintbox (config.py, pipulate/__init__.py, pipulate/core.py, imports/server_logging.py, server.py) — that is the 70.2% coverage line. Nothing lost; the Paintbox is the archive. It is uncommitted: m banks it as the left-hand boundary, and the hint detector will label it router churn.
PII warnings. The compiler is doing what it was told (name every rule that fires). Both rules live in ~/.config/pipulate/pii_substitutions.txt, not the repo, and prompt_foo.py already has the lane switch you want: a pub: prefix means “sanitizer.py applies it before publishing; the compile lane skips it.” Prefix the two email rules and the seven rewrites vanish for default files while articles still publish redacted. No repo patch. One gate: confirm sanitizer.py actually parses pub: before editing, or those rules go inert in the publish lane and your email lands on the public blog. Named tradeoff: the generic address regex is also what would blank a client’s address inside a gmail/slack receipt; if you want that kept, use the lookahead form in the deliverables instead of pub:.
MCP. mcp.py already does the generic path end to end, and the wallet’s check chains the 300-second refresh so a healthy credential reads green. What it cannot do is show you a server’s contract: tools/list prints name plus 80 chars and drops inputSchema; initialize returns serverInfo and drops instructions — the field a stateful server uses to say “call X first and carry the id it returns.” For a session-and-polling server those are the only two strings that matter, and a WET file written without them is a guess wearing a filename. So: one small car on mcp.py (--schema and print instructions), and the WET file is written next turn from receipts. That is the checklist’s “ask for the probe instead of patching” case, taken deliberately.
Two things mcp.py must not grow, because they are the WET file’s job: the session ledger (Mcp-Session-Id plus whatever application-level id the first call returns, persisted at a derived path so a second invocation ten minutes later can resume) and the bounded poll loop. Whether the “answer me later” URL is polled by plain GET or by a second tool is exactly what the schema receipt decides. Note the two different sessions in play: MCP’s own header (mcp.py already captures it within one process) and the application-level one; the receipts will say which the server actually uses.
npvg.org. mck.sh already rides npvg.org/mck/<trail> via sub_filter; a bare root serving the same file with public_walk defaulted is one nginx location, not a repo change. Parked, out loud.
1. PROBES
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py
python scripts/connectors/wallet.py check botify_mcp
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://mcp.botify.com
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://mcp.botify.com --schema --max-bytes 12000
rg -n 'pub:' scripts/articles/sanitizer.py
grep -c '^pub:' ~/.config/pipulate/pii_substitutions.txt
This is the muscle-memory ladder in order. Line 1 is what bare mcp runs: token state and clock, no socket. Line 2 is what bare warm runs for that slot: headless refresh then the envelope check; if it reds on the refresh, warm botify_mcp at the prompt is the browser-mint fixer (interactive, never echoed). Order matters: line 2 mints a fresh 300s token so lines 3–4 run on it. Line 4 exits 2 BEFORE (unrecognized --schema) and prints JSON AFTER — that is the straddle. Lines 5–6 gate the PII edit: 5 must show sanitizer.py honoring the prefix; 6 reads N before and N+2 after your config edit.
Render farm: I don’t have its URL. Per the 2026-08-29 conviction in mcp.py, the static-token Botify server wanted the Token grammar, so its first two readings are python scripts/connectors/mcp.py <URL> --check --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN and the same with --schema --max-bytes 20000. Once the URL is real, add both as ! lines; a placeholder in adhoc.txt would only produce a garbage receipt.
2. NEXT CONTEXT
# flake.nix # <-- comment out for this turn; the mcp alias is known, 29K tokens buys nothing
scripts/connectors/README.md
scripts/connectors/mcp.py
scripts/connectors/mcp_warm.py
scripts/connectors/botify.py # <-- the auth-shape sibling the WET file will copy from
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py
! python scripts/connectors/wallet.py check botify_mcp
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://mcp.botify.com
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://mcp.botify.com --schema --max-bytes 12000
! rg -n 'pub:' scripts/articles/sanitizer.py
! grep -c '^pub:' ~/.config/pipulate/pii_substitutions.txt
Drop wallet.py, slack, jira, sheets, gmail, gsc, confluence, the walk lane, scraper_tools, and the installers next turn; they cost 100K tokens and the WET car needs none of them.
3. PATCHES
Choreography: m first to bank the router reorg, then this one car: patch, app, d, m, blast. No ignition required — every probe above invokes mcp.py, which loads the patched file at call time.
Target: scripts/connectors/mcp.py
[[[SEARCH]]]
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py <server> # LIST: initialize -> tools/list
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py <server> <tool> '<args-json>' # CALL: initialize -> tools/call
[[[DIVIDER]]]
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py <server> # LIST: initialize -> tools/list (+ server instructions)
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py <server> --schema # LIST: each tool's full JSON (description + inputSchema)
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py <server> <tool> '<args-json>' # CALL: initialize -> tools/call
[[[REPLACE]]]
Target: scripts/connectors/mcp.py
[[[SEARCH]]]
if ack is not None and ack.status_code >= 400:
die(f"mcp RED gate2: server refused notifications/initialized "
f"(HTTP {ack.status_code}) -- the handshake is incomplete")
return session_id, negotiated, result.get("serverInfo") or {}
[[[DIVIDER]]]
if ack is not None and ack.status_code >= 400:
die(f"mcp RED gate2: server refused notifications/initialized "
f"(HTTP {ack.status_code}) -- the handshake is incomplete")
# THE WHOLE RESULT, NOT A SLICE OF IT (2026-09-01). This returned only
# serverInfo and discarded `instructions` -- the one field the spec gives
# a server to tell a HUMAN how to use it. A stateful server's "call X
# first and carry the id it returns" lives exactly there, and the client
# whose job is self-discovery was throwing it away unread.
return session_id, negotiated, result
[[[REPLACE]]]
Target: scripts/connectors/mcp.py
[[[SEARCH]]]
def list_tools(client, server, max_items):
session_id, negotiated, sinfo = initialize(client, server)
resp = post(client, server,
{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/list"}, session_id)
if resp.status_code != 200:
die(f"mcp RED gate3: tools/list HTTP {resp.status_code}\n{resp.text[:300]}")
parsed = parse_body(resp) or {}
if parsed.get("error") is not None:
die(f"mcp RED gate3: tools/list returned JSON-RPC error {parsed['error']}")
tools = (parsed.get("result") or {}).get("tools") or []
print(f"# {server} — protocol {negotiated} | server "
f"{sinfo.get('name', '?')} | {len(tools)} tool(s) | "
f"session={'yes' if session_id else 'no'}\n")
for t in tools[:max_items]:
print(f"{t.get('name', '?')} {str(t.get('description', ''))[:80]}")
if len(tools) > max_items:
print(f"... +{len(tools) - max_items} more (raise -n/--max)")
[[[DIVIDER]]]
def list_tools(client, server, max_items, schema=False, max_bytes=4000):
session_id, negotiated, init = initialize(client, server)
sinfo = init.get("serverInfo") or {}
resp = post(client, server,
{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/list"}, session_id)
if resp.status_code != 200:
die(f"mcp RED gate3: tools/list HTTP {resp.status_code}\n{resp.text[:300]}")
parsed = parse_body(resp) or {}
if parsed.get("error") is not None:
die(f"mcp RED gate3: tools/list returned JSON-RPC error {parsed['error']}")
tools = (parsed.get("result") or {}).get("tools") or []
print(f"# {server} — protocol {negotiated} | server "
f"{sinfo.get('name', '?')} | {len(tools)} tool(s) | "
f"session={'yes' if session_id else 'no'}\n")
# SERVER INSTRUCTIONS, VERBATIM AND ADDITIVE. Printed as `#` lines so no
# reader of the roster below mistakes them for a tool row; capped like
# everything else on stdout. Absent on most servers, decisive on a
# stateful one.
instructions = str(init.get("instructions") or "").strip()
if instructions:
if len(instructions) > max_bytes:
instructions = instructions[:max_bytes] + f"\n... [truncated at {max_bytes} bytes; raise --max-bytes]"
print("# server instructions (verbatim from initialize):")
for line in instructions.splitlines():
print(f"# {line}")
print()
# --schema: THE 80-CHAR ROSTER CANNOT SHOW A PARAMETER NAME. A stateful
# or long-running server's contract -- which argument carries the session
# id, which tool polls the job -- lives in inputSchema, and a WET
# connector written without reading it is a guess wearing a filename.
if schema:
text = json.dumps(tools[:max_items], indent=2, default=str)
if len(text) > max_bytes:
text = text[:max_bytes] + (f"\n... [truncated at {max_bytes} bytes "
"per THE PROBE ECONOMY RULE]")
print(text)
else:
for t in tools[:max_items]:
print(f"{t.get('name', '?')} {str(t.get('description', ''))[:80]}")
if len(tools) > max_items:
print(f"... +{len(tools) - max_items} more (raise -n/--max)")
[[[REPLACE]]]
Target: scripts/connectors/mcp.py
[[[SEARCH]]]
session_id, _negotiated, _sinfo = initialize(client, server)
print_receipt(server, "tools/call", tool, raw_args, dclass, declared)
[[[DIVIDER]]]
session_id, _negotiated, _init = initialize(client, server)
print_receipt(server, "tools/call", tool, raw_args, dclass, declared)
[[[REPLACE]]]
Target: scripts/connectors/mcp.py
[[[SEARCH]]]
with make_client(token, scheme) as client:
session_id, negotiated, _sinfo = initialize(client, server)
[[[DIVIDER]]]
with make_client(token, scheme) as client:
session_id, negotiated, _init = initialize(client, server)
[[[REPLACE]]]
Target: scripts/connectors/mcp.py
[[[SEARCH]]]
parser.add_argument("--max-bytes", type=int, default=4000,
help="CALL result cap in bytes (default: 4000).")
[[[DIVIDER]]]
parser.add_argument("--max-bytes", type=int, default=4000,
help="CALL result cap in bytes; also caps --schema "
"and server instructions (default: 4000).")
parser.add_argument("--schema", action="store_true",
help="LIST mode: print each tool's full JSON "
"(description + inputSchema) instead of the "
"80-char roster. Bounded by -n and --max-bytes.")
[[[REPLACE]]]
Target: scripts/connectors/mcp.py
[[[SEARCH]]]
arm_receipt(args.server, "tools/list", auth_env=token_name,
auth_scheme=args.auth_scheme)
list_tools(client, args.server, args.max)
[[[DIVIDER]]]
arm_receipt(args.server, "tools/list", auth_env=token_name,
auth_scheme=args.auth_scheme)
list_tools(client, args.server, args.max,
schema=args.schema, max_bytes=args.max_bytes)
[[[REPLACE]]]
4. PROMPT
Receipts are in the Manifest: identity walk, wallet check botify_mcp, tools/list with server instructions, and --schema JSON for mcp.botify.com (plus the render-farm server if its URL landed). From those receipts only, design scripts/connectors/botify_render.py as a WET connector per connectors/README.md: copy mcp.py's envelope (make_client, parse_body, post, initialize) verbatim, then add the two things mcp.py must never grow: (a) a session ledger at a derived path under ~/.config/pipulate/mcp/ holding the Mcp-Session-Id and any application-level id the first call returns, read on every later invocation, with --new-session to discard; (b) a bounded --wait poll loop (--every N seconds, --for M seconds), one receipt line per poll, and on timeout exit 1 printing the exact resume command with the job/session id. Decide from the schema and instructions which of those ids the server actually uses and whether the "answer me later" URL is polled by plain GET or by a second tool. Golden path first: botify_render '<args-json>' then botify_render --wait <id>. Do not touch mcp.py this turn. If the schema receipt is truncated or the render-farm URL is still missing, say so and stop; do not invent a contract.
5. EXTERNAL DELIVERABLES
~/.config/pipulate/pii_substitutions.txt (manual edit, only after probe 5 shows sanitizer.py handles the prefix). Prefix the two lines that fired:
pub:\bmichael\.levin@botify\.com\b === [author email]
pub:\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}\b === [email redacted]
If you would rather keep client addresses blanked in the compile lane and exempt only your own, leave the generic rule live and add a lookahead naming your addresses instead of the pub: on that line — shape: \b(?!michael\.levin@botify\.com|you@example\.com|git@github\.com)[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@.... The four [email redacted] sites in flake.nix, __init__.py, pyproject.toml, and gmail.py are the ones to list; I can’t read them through the placeholders.
Render-farm server: its URL and, once --check answers, which Authorization grammar it accepted. Both belong in the wallet as a second mcp_oauth-or-bearer_token slot; that slot is a later car, after the WET file exists to warm it.
MikeLev.in:
1: Probe:
$ git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
(nix) pipulate $ python scripts/connectors/mcp.py
python scripts/connectors/wallet.py check botify_mcp
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://mcp.botify.com
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://mcp.botify.com --schema --max-bytes 12000
rg -n 'pub:' scripts/articles/sanitizer.py
grep -c '^pub:' ~/.config/pipulate/pii_substitutions.txt
# mcp token clock: EXPIRED 52587s ago (life was 300s); refresh_token present: yes; re-mint with python scripts/connectors/mcp_warm.py
# mcp.py -- replay client for remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP)
# protocol : 2025-06-18 (INFERRED until a GREEN --check)
# token : file lane resolved from mcp_botify_token.json (value never printed)
# resolved is not accepted -- only --check posts
# creds : 2 warmed file(s); values never printed
# mcp.botify.com -- EXPIRED 52092s ago (life was 300s); refresh_token present: yes; re-mint with python scripts/connectors/mcp_warm.py
# mcp_botify_token (pre-derivation) -- EXPIRED 52587s ago (life was 300s); refresh_token present: yes; re-mint with python scripts/connectors/mcp_warm.py
#
# This client never guesses a server. Name one:
# mcp <server> --check envelope health; exit code is the answer
# mcp <server> initialize -> tools/list
# mcp <server> <tool> '<json>' initialize -> tools/call
#
# Mint or refresh a bearer: python scripts/connectors/mcp_warm.py
# wallet check — LIVE credential board (one bounded call per slot)
# wallet: /home/mike/.config/pipulate/connectors.json
# green means the service accepted this credential just now, not merely that a token exists
🟢 botify_mcp mcp mcp GREEN https://mcp.botify.com/ protocol=2025-06-18 session=no tools=42 auth=mcp.botify.com.json scheme=Bearer
# 1 green | 0 red | 0 unchecked
# 🏆 GOLD — every enrolled credential (1/1) is live.
# mcp token clock: ~298s left of a 300s life
# https://mcp.botify.com — protocol 2025-06-18 | server Botify Agents | 42 tool(s) | session=no
list_projects List the Botify projects the authenticated user can access. Each entry has the `
action_board Retrieve actions from ActionBoard for your projects.
botify_config
Retrieve configuration information for Botify products.
Supports:
calculator Perform basic arithmetic operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide).
google_ai_mode Query Google AI Mode to get AI-generated search results, featured snippets, and
google_knowledge_graph
Search the Google Knowledge Graph to find information about real-world enti
google_people_also_ask Retrieve the Google 'People Also Ask' questions for a specific query.
google_search Get feature snippets (e.g., Google shopping, images, video, people also search/a
google_trends Analyze search trend data to understand how interest in specific keywords has ch
google_url_inspection Get information about Google's indexed version of a page from the URL Inspection
html_code_executor
Execute a JavaScript function on HTML from a SiteCrawler crawl or a
tem
html_extract_images
Extract main images from a webpage (excluding logos, icons, and decorative
html_extractor_css_selector
Get the CSS selector for a given element.
html_grep
Fetch the HTML of a given URL and search for one or more expressions in it.
html_pageworkers_preview
Get the preview for PageWorkers descriptor for a selector or templates rend
html_question
Ask any question about the semantic structure, HTML elements, and technical
html_structured_data
Extract structured data from HTML pages in JSON-LD format.
keywords_clustering Analyze and organize keywords into meaningful, thematic clusters that reflect us
keywords_suggestions
Analyze Google Ads keyword data and answer questions about:
- Searc
keywords_suggestions_google_ads_planner Analyze Google Ads keyword data and answer questions about:
- Search volumes
knowledge Answer questions about the Botify application to understand product features, te
list_annotations List chart annotations on the current project: dated notes and markers on Botify
nearest_page_for_topic Get the nearest page (for current project) for a given topic
pageworkers
Update any title/description/h1 for a list of URLs through PageWorkers, and
pageworkers_get_or_create_optimization
Get or create a PageWorkers PAGE_EDITOR optimization. Searches existing mod
... +17 more (raise -n/--max)
# FDR receipt: /home/mike/repos/pipulate/browser_cache/mcp/mcp.botify.com/20260901T103301693235Z__tools_list.json
usage: mcp.py [-h] [--check] [--dclass {D0,D1,D2}] [-n MAX] [--max-bytes MAX_BYTES] [--token-env TOKEN_ENV] [--auth-scheme AUTH_SCHEME]
[server] [tool] [args_json]
mcp.py: error: unrecognized arguments: --schema
174: if line.startswith('pub:'):
211: if line.startswith('pub:'):
0
(nix) pipulate $
2: Context:
# adhoc.txt _ _ _ to set context____ _ _ ___ ____ _ Simpson Couch Gag Here (explain anything to the audience you feel needs it explained)
# / \ __| | | | | | ___ ___ / ___| | | |/ _ \| _ \| |
# ahe/ _ \ / _` | | |_| |/ _ \ / __| | | | |_| | | | | |_) | | Beginning of Myelinating MCP from terminal
# ahc ___ \ (_| | | _ | (_) | (__ | |___| _ | |_| | __/|_|
# /_/ \_\__,_| |_| |_|\___/ \___| \____|_| |_|\___/|_| (_)
# Ad Hoc CHOP: The Not-Managed-by-Git Safe-for-Client-Data place
# OPTIONAL BUT BIG FOR FULL CONTEXT-WINDOW STORYTELLING
# ! python scripts/articles/lsa.py -t 1 --reverse --fmt dated-slugs # <-- The "Rolling Pin" that gives the 40K foot book-spine view of book-ore.
# GLOSSARY.md # <-- I think this glossary goes well with the book-ore spine to do world building.
# scripts/articles/lsa.py # <-- Useful for refining commands like `posts`, critical to Second Brain concept.
# ~/repos/nixos/autognome.py # <-- Letting the AIs really understand my environment (The Brave Little Tailor punches above Their Weight Class proving the dunning-kruger effect the gate-keeper's (lower-case) lament.)
# init.lua # <-- Daily driver hot-keys that overlap with aliases in flake.nix
# STILL BIG BUT LESS OPTIONAL (especially flake.nix)
flake.nix # <-- THE ONE BIG THING TO INCLUDE Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tells LLM about your system down to the metal
prompt_foo.py # <-- This very content-compiling system
# foo_files.py # <-- This is the router, evolving book outline and the things you pin-up to produced the recursive self-improvement loops
# TINY ILLUMINATING (OK to include every time / automatically = `apply.py`, `.gitignore`, `.gitattributes`)
requirements.in # <-- All known dependencies and (necessary) version pinning. WORA gotcha's exposed.
__init__.py # <-- Master versioning
pyproject.toml # <-- The PyPI Packaging details
# OPTIONAL ACTUATORS (cheap and good to include to expand the AI's capabilities)
# cli.py # <-- Catch-all actuator for PyPI envs, Python anchoring, MCP tool-call (plus alternatives) and **kwargs like wrapping for CLI
# scripts/xp.py # <-- Transforms host OS copy-paste buffer player-piano music into context-payload.
# scripts/ai.py # <-- How I constantly use local AI to write git commit messages with `m` alias.
# scripts/crawl.py # <-- Feel free to ask for something to be crawled and included in the next turn.
# scripts/weblogin.py # <-- Lets the user "warm up" the cache for their web logins at their leisure on a profile that persists.
# MISCELLANEOUS (rare to include but sometimes critical)
# scripts/foo_cartridge.py # Needs description
# scripts/foo_replay.py # Needs description
# release.py # <-- How everything ends up where it does (GitHub, PyPI, etc.)
# imports/voice_synthesis.py # <-- The wand can talk to you
# imports/ascii_displays.py # <-- Where all the ASCII Art lives
# scripts/release/version_sync.py # <-- Needs to be wrapped into release.py and eliminated, I think.
# --- Under this line is were you paste what the AI gives you ---
# --- We call it context but it's really just the right-hand ---
# --- blast-radius of the "probes" to make this all science. ---
# --- END `adhoc.txt` TEMPLATE ---
# STICKBUG & MOTHER CAT KATA
# assets/trails/botify_pageworkers.yaml
# assets/installer/mck.sh
# assets/installer/replay.sh
# assets/trails/first_context.yaml
# assets/trails/practice.yaml
# assets/trails/public_walk.yaml
# scripts/bookmark_import.py
# scripts/boot_menu.py
# scripts/connectors/README.md
# scripts/connectors/botify.py
# scripts/connectors/confluence.py
# scripts/connectors/gmail.py
# scripts/connectors/gsc.py
# scripts/connectors/jira.py
# scripts/connectors/mcp.py
# scripts/connectors/mcp_warm.py
# scripts/connectors/sheets.py
# scripts/connectors/slack.py
# scripts/connectors/wallet.py
# scripts/mother_cat.py
# scripts/sources_menu.py
# scripts/walk.py
# scripts/walk_cartridge.py
# scripts/walk_compile.py
# scripts/weblogin.py
# tools/scraper_tools.py
# # # adhoc.txt -- Cleanup inert public_walk environment export block
# #
# # # --- BEFORE/AFTER STRADDLE ---
# # ! grep -n -C 2 'PIPULATE_TRAIL_WALK_ONE_URL' assets/installer/mck.sh || echo "export_block_removed"
# # ! bash -n assets/installer/mck.sh; echo "mck_syntax=$?"
# # ! bash assets/installer/mck.sh --where
# #
# # # --- TARGET SCRIPT ---
# # assets/installer/mck.sh
# #
# # ! rg -n -F 'TRAIL_NAME="${TRAIL_NAME:-public_walk}"' assets/installer/mck.sh
# # ! rg -n -e '^ *walk\(\)' -e '^ *alias walk=' flake.nix; echo "shell_walk_exit=$?"
# # ! test -e walk; echo "root_walk_exists=$?"
# # ! rg -n -e 'alias mothercat=' -e 'Three words to start from' flake.nix scripts/boot_menu.py
# # flake.nix
# # scripts/boot_menu.py
# # assets/installer/mck.sh
#
# # ! bash -n walk; echo "walk_syntax=$?"
# # ! bash walk --where
# # ! rg -n -e '^ *alias walk=' -e '^ *walk\(\)' -e 'writeShellScriptBin "walk"' flake.nix; echo "shell_walk_exit=$?"
# # ! .venv/bin/python -c 'import sys; sys.path.insert(0,"scripts"); import boot_menu as b; print("count=" + b._count_word(len(b.DOOR_TWO_WORDS))); print(" ".join(w for w, _ in b.DOOR_TWO_WORDS))'
# # walk
# # flake.nix
# # scripts/boot_menu.py
# # assets/installer/mck.sh
#
# # ! rg -in "three words|four words|door 2" flake.nix scripts/ assets/ README.md
# # ! walk --where
# # walk
# # flake.nix
# # scripts/boot_menu.py
# # assets/installer/mck.sh
#
# # ! python scripts/connectors/wallet.py check slack
# # ! python -c "import os, sys; from pathlib import Path; sys.path.insert(0, '.'); from scripts.connectors import wallet; pairs = wallet._dotenv_pairs(); print('env SLACK_USER_TOKEN:', bool(os.getenv('SLACK_USER_TOKEN')), 'env SLACK_BOT_TOKEN:', bool(os.getenv('SLACK_BOT_TOKEN')), 'vault SLACK_USER_TOKEN:', 'SLACK_USER_TOKEN' in pairs, 'vault SLACK_BOT_TOKEN:', 'SLACK_BOT_TOKEN' in pairs)"
# # ! python scripts/connectors/wallet.py warm slack --dry-run
#
# /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/_posts/2026-08-30-terminal-native-mcp-practice.md
# deleteme.txt
# Now that slack is working (on my workspace) we trim back things here to just the stick bug and Mother Cat Kata stuff
deleteme.txt
# flake.nix # <-- comment out for this turn; the mcp alias is known, 29K tokens buys nothing
scripts/connectors/README.md
scripts/connectors/mcp.py
scripts/connectors/mcp_warm.py
scripts/connectors/botify.py # <-- the auth-shape sibling the WET file will copy from
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py
! python scripts/connectors/wallet.py check botify_mcp
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://mcp.botify.com
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://mcp.botify.com --schema --max-bytes 12000
! rg -n 'pub:' scripts/articles/sanitizer.py
! grep -c '^pub:' ~/.config/pipulate/pii_substitutions.txt
3: Patches:
(nix) pipulate $ ahe
(nix) pipulate $ g
Blast Radius Check to establish bisection Left-hand Causal Boundary. It is a Popper-thing. Science.
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
(nix) pipulate $ patch
(nix) pipulate $ app
✅ DETERMINISTIC PATCH APPLIED: Successfully mutated 'scripts/connectors/mcp.py'.
(nix) pipulate $ d
diff --git a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
index d11d7dee..4e6349df 100644
--- a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
+++ b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ named gate; nothing here silently falls back.
Golden-path modes, auto-detected from positionals:
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py # IDENTITY: token state + usage; opens no socket
- python scripts/connectors/mcp.py <server> # LIST: initialize -> tools/list
+ python scripts/connectors/mcp.py <server> # LIST: initialize -> tools/list (+ server instructions)
+ python scripts/connectors/mcp.py <server> --schema # LIST: each tool's full JSON (description + inputSchema)
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py <server> <tool> '<args-json>' # CALL: initialize -> tools/call
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py <server> --check # CHECK: envelope health; exit code is the answer
(nix) pipulate $ m
📝 Committing: chore: Update mcp.py documentation for list and schema options
[main 6a3a0281] chore: Update mcp.py documentation for list and schema options
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
(nix) pipulate $ patch
(nix) pipulate $ app
✅ DETERMINISTIC PATCH APPLIED: Successfully mutated 'scripts/connectors/mcp.py'.
(nix) pipulate $ d
diff --git a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
index 4e6349df..3730b0b3 100644
--- a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
+++ b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
@@ -459,7 +459,12 @@ def initialize(client, server):
if ack is not None and ack.status_code >= 400:
die(f"mcp RED gate2: server refused notifications/initialized "
f"(HTTP {ack.status_code}) -- the handshake is incomplete")
- return session_id, negotiated, result.get("serverInfo") or {}
+ # THE WHOLE RESULT, NOT A SLICE OF IT (2026-09-01). This returned only
+ # serverInfo and discarded `instructions` -- the one field the spec gives
+ # a server to tell a HUMAN how to use it. A stateful server's "call X
+ # first and carry the id it returns" lives exactly there, and the client
+ # whose job is self-discovery was throwing it away unread.
+ return session_id, negotiated, result
def print_receipt(server, verb, tool, raw_args, dclass, declared):
(nix) pipulate $ m
📝 Committing: fix: Return full result from MCP initialization
[main 66f2ad7b] fix: Return full result from MCP initialization
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
(nix) pipulate $ patch
(nix) pipulate $ app
✅ DETERMINISTIC PATCH APPLIED: Successfully mutated 'scripts/connectors/mcp.py'.
(nix) pipulate $ d
diff --git a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
index 3730b0b3..601820be 100644
--- a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
+++ b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
@@ -479,8 +479,9 @@ def print_receipt(server, verb, tool, raw_args, dclass, declared):
print(f"# observed_at: {now}")
-def list_tools(client, server, max_items):
- session_id, negotiated, sinfo = initialize(client, server)
+def list_tools(client, server, max_items, schema=False, max_bytes=4000):
+ session_id, negotiated, init = initialize(client, server)
+ sinfo = init.get("serverInfo") or {}
resp = post(client, server,
{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/list"}, session_id)
if resp.status_code != 200:
@@ -492,8 +493,31 @@ def list_tools(client, server, max_items):
print(f"# {server} — protocol {negotiated} | server "
f"{sinfo.get('name', '?')} | {len(tools)} tool(s) | "
f"session={'yes' if session_id else 'no'}\n")
- for t in tools[:max_items]:
- print(f"{t.get('name', '?')} {str(t.get('description', ''))[:80]}")
+ # SERVER INSTRUCTIONS, VERBATIM AND ADDITIVE. Printed as `#` lines so no
+ # reader of the roster below mistakes them for a tool row; capped like
+ # everything else on stdout. Absent on most servers, decisive on a
+ # stateful one.
+ instructions = str(init.get("instructions") or "").strip()
+ if instructions:
+ if len(instructions) > max_bytes:
+ instructions = instructions[:max_bytes] + f"\n... [truncated at {max_bytes} bytes; raise --max-bytes]"
+ print("# server instructions (verbatim from initialize):")
+ for line in instructions.splitlines():
+ print(f"# {line}")
+ print()
+ # --schema: THE 80-CHAR ROSTER CANNOT SHOW A PARAMETER NAME. A stateful
+ # or long-running server's contract -- which argument carries the session
+ # id, which tool polls the job -- lives in inputSchema, and a WET
+ # connector written without reading it is a guess wearing a filename.
+ if schema:
+ text = json.dumps(tools[:max_items], indent=2, default=str)
+ if len(text) > max_bytes:
+ text = text[:max_bytes] + (f"\n... [truncated at {max_bytes} bytes "
+ "per THE PROBE ECONOMY RULE]")
+ print(text)
+ else:
+ for t in tools[:max_items]:
+ print(f"{t.get('name', '?')} {str(t.get('description', ''))[:80]}")
if len(tools) > max_items:
print(f"... +{len(tools) - max_items} more (raise -n/--max)")
(nix) pipulate $ m
📝 Committing: refactor: Add server instructions and schema output
[main e54ecd86] refactor: Add server instructions and schema output
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
(nix) pipulate $ patch
(nix) pipulate $ app
✅ DETERMINISTIC PATCH APPLIED: Successfully mutated 'scripts/connectors/mcp.py'.
(nix) pipulate $ d
diff --git a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
index 601820be..65996c16 100644
--- a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
+++ b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ def call_tool(client, server, tool, raw_args, dclass, declared, max_bytes):
args = json.loads(raw_args) if raw_args.strip() else {}
except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
die(f"args-json failed to parse: {e}")
- session_id, _negotiated, _sinfo = initialize(client, server)
+ session_id, _negotiated, _init = initialize(client, server)
print_receipt(server, "tools/call", tool, raw_args, dclass, declared)
resp = post(client, server,
{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/call",
(nix) pipulate $ m
📝 Committing: chore: Update initialize function call in mcp.py
[main 234b3edd] chore: Update initialize function call in mcp.py
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
(nix) pipulate $ patch
(nix) pipulate $ app
✅ DETERMINISTIC PATCH APPLIED: Successfully mutated 'scripts/connectors/mcp.py'.
(nix) pipulate $ d
diff --git a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
index 65996c16..2529e258 100644
--- a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
+++ b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ def check(server, token_env, scheme="Bearer"):
arm_receipt(server, "check", auth_env=token_name, auth_scheme=scheme)
try:
with make_client(token, scheme) as client:
- session_id, negotiated, _sinfo = initialize(client, server)
+ session_id, negotiated, _init = initialize(client, server)
resp = post(client, server,
{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/list"},
session_id)
(nix) pipulate $ m
📝 Committing: fix: correct initialize function return values
[main fd312f37] fix: correct initialize function return values
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
(nix) pipulate $ patch
(nix) pipulate $ app
✅ DETERMINISTIC PATCH APPLIED: Successfully mutated 'scripts/connectors/mcp.py'.
(nix) pipulate $ d
diff --git a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
index 2529e258..aec94a5b 100644
--- a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
+++ b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
@@ -604,7 +604,12 @@ def main():
parser.add_argument("-n", "--max", type=int, default=25,
help="LIST cap per THE PROBE ECONOMY RULE (default: 25).")
parser.add_argument("--max-bytes", type=int, default=4000,
- help="CALL result cap in bytes (default: 4000).")
+ help="CALL result cap in bytes; also caps --schema "
+ "and server instructions (default: 4000).")
+ parser.add_argument("--schema", action="store_true",
+ help="LIST mode: print each tool's full JSON "
+ "(description + inputSchema) instead of the "
+ "80-char roster. Bounded by -n and --max-bytes.")
parser.add_argument("--token-env", default=None,
help="Env var holding the bearer <redacted:5> (default: "
"MCP_BEARER_TOKEN, then BOTIFY_API_TOKEN).")
(nix) pipulate $ m
📝 Committing: chore: Update MCP argument parsing with schema support and byte limit
[main e8badec9] chore: Update MCP argument parsing with schema support and byte limit
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
(nix) pipulate $ patch
(nix) pipulate $ app
✅ DETERMINISTIC PATCH APPLIED: Successfully mutated 'scripts/connectors/mcp.py'.
(nix) pipulate $ d
diff --git a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
index aec94a5b..4233f2df 100644
--- a/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
+++ b/scripts/connectors/mcp.py
@@ -645,7 +645,8 @@ def main():
else:
arm_receipt(args.server, "tools/list", auth_env=token_name,
auth_scheme=args.auth_scheme)
- list_tools(client, args.server, args.max)
+ list_tools(client, args.server, args.max,
+ schema=args.schema, max_bytes=args.max_bytes)
if __name__ == "__main__":
(nix) pipulate $ m
📝 Committing: chore: Update list_tools function signature in mcp.py
[main a7dd2860] chore: Update list_tools function signature in mcp.py
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
(nix) pipulate $ git push
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Total 35 (delta 28), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (28/28), completed with 4 local objects.
To github.com:pipulate/pipulate.git
3799ffbc..a7dd2860 main -> main
(nix) pipulate $
4: Prompt: Receipts are in the Manifest: identity walk, wallet check botify_mcp, tools/list with server instructions, and –schema JSON for mcp.botify.com (plus the render-farm server if its URL landed). From those receipts only, design scripts/connectors/botify_render.py as a WET connector per connectors/README.md: copy mcp.py’s envelope (make_client, parse_body, post, initialize) verbatim, then add the two things mcp.py must never grow: (a) a session ledger at a derived path under ~/.config/pipulate/mcp/ holding the Mcp-Session-Id and any application-level id the first call returns, read on every later invocation, with –new-session to discard; (b) a bounded –wait poll loop (–every N seconds, –for M seconds), one receipt line per poll, and on timeout exit 1 printing the exact resume command with the job/session id. Decide from the schema and instructions which of those ids the server actually uses and whether the “answer me later” URL is polled by plain GET or by a second tool. Golden path first: botify_render ‘
5: Deliverables: This
I didn’t change my PII file yet because I wanted to ahc it and show you these
results first.
Engineering the Safety Net and Canary Protocols
Fable 5 Extra: Context verified. Two receipts up front:
- Render canary still arrives linkified (
[www.canary.invalid](https://www.canary.invalid)). No patch rides this turn, so nothing can quote a rewritten token. - Six LIVE COMMAND RECEIPTS landed, and one file you didn’t call out did the most work:
deleteme.txtcarries the vendor’s own card for the render farm — URL, transport, and auth grammar. The render-farm URL is no longer missing.
What the receipts settled
The --schema straddle closed. BEFORE: argparse exit 2 on --schema. AFTER: full JSON. Seven cars, seven commits, pushed. The tools/list receipt shows the header and then goes straight to the roster with no # server instructions block — that is a witnessed absence (mcp.botify.com sends no instructions), not a dead code path; the diff is in Telemetry and the header printed through the same function.
mcp.botify.com is stateless. session=no on both the check and the list. It is also fastmcp-shaped: every tool takes organization, project, item, config. So the generic path is GOLD, and the stateful/polling questions were never about this server. list_projects has an empty inputSchema, which makes it the right first real tools/call for the muscle memory: mcp https://mcp.botify.com list_projects '{}' --dclass D1 — hand-only, never echoed, because it prints client org/project slugs.
The identity walk reads EXPIRED because it ran before the wallet refresh in the same compile. Ordering, not a fault; typed after warm it reads live.
PII gate is green. sanitizer.py handles pub: at lines 174 and 211, and your file currently has 0 such lines. The edit is safe to make now; it’s in the deliverables.
The render farm: URL landed, contract did not
From the card: Streamable HTTP at https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp, header Authorization: Token <Main Token> — the same Main Token botify.py already sends as Token, so BOTIFY_API_TOKEN is the credential and nothing needs warming. That fixes the envelope: --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN. The derived receipt/token stem will be redacted.production.botify.com:redacted__mcp; port and path both survive token_path_for, so it cannot collide with mcp.botify.com.
What the card does not say is the part the WET file is for: tool names, whether the server issues Mcp-Session-Id, whether a render returns a job id or a poll URL, and which argument carries a session. Your caboose rule was explicit — no schema receipt, no invented contract — so I’m stopping one probe short of the file. Three commands make it writable next turn. One foresight, not a diagnosis: if the check reds at gate2 with a 400, the first suspect is the MCP-Protocol-Version header mcp.py never sends (spec says SHOULD; mcp.botify.com tolerated its absence); mcp.py prints the first 300 bytes of the body, which will say.
1. PROBES
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --check --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --schema -n 50 --max-bytes 30000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
grep -c '^pub:' ~/.config/pipulate/pii_substitutions.txt
Line 1 answers the stateful question in one word: session=yes or session=no on the GREEN line, and the exit code is the verdict; a RED names its gate. Line 2 is the roster plus any instructions the server chose to send — the one string written for a human. Line 3 is the contract; 30,000 bytes is deliberate, because a truncated schema is the exact receipt the rule refuses to build on. Line 4 reads 2 after the config edit below.
2. NEXT CONTEXT
# flake.nix and prompt_foo.py: comment both out -- 71K tokens the WET car cannot use
deleteme.txt # <-- the vendor card; the WET docstring cites it
scripts/connectors/README.md
scripts/connectors/mcp.py # <-- the envelope the WET file copies verbatim
scripts/connectors/botify.py # <-- the Token-scheme sibling
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --check --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --schema -n 50 --max-bytes 30000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! grep -c '^pub:' ~/.config/pipulate/pii_substitutions.txt
Drop mcp_warm.py (OAuth; this server is a static token) and the mcp.botify.com probes (GOLD is banked). The schema receipt may run 10K tokens and the WET file another 8K; the payload needs the room.
3. PATCHES
No repo patches required. The probes run stock mcp.py against a new server; no ignition.
4. PROMPT
The render-farm receipts are in the Manifest: --check (GREEN line with session=yes/no, or a gate-named RED), tools/list with any server instructions, and the full --schema JSON for https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp. deleteme.txt is the vendor's own card. From those receipts only, write scripts/connectors/botify_render.py as a WET connector per connectors/README.md: first docstring line under 61 chars for the sources roster; copy mcp.py's envelope (make_client with scheme Token, parse_body, post, initialize) verbatim; token from BOTIFY_API_TOKEN via the same get_botify_token botify.py uses; --check per THE EXIT-CODE PROTOCOL so a wallet slot named botify_render can score it. Then the two things mcp.py must never grow, shaped by the schema: (a) a session ledger at ~/.config/pipulate/mcp/redacted.production.botify.com:redacted__mcp.session.json holding whatever id the server actually uses -- Mcp-Session-Id, an application-level id, or both -- read on every later invocation, --new-session to discard; (b) if a render returns a job id or poll URL, a bounded --wait loop (--every N, --for M seconds), one receipt line per poll, exit 1 on timeout printing the exact resume command. Golden path: botify_render <url> then botify_render --wait <id>; identity walk with no argument. If the schema receipt is truncated or --check is RED, say so and stop; do not invent a contract, and do not touch mcp.py.
5. EXTERNAL DELIVERABLES
~/.config/pipulate/pii_substitutions.txt — the gate you were waiting on is green. Prefix the two rules that fired:
pub:\bmichael\.levin@botify\.com\b === [author email]
pub:\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}\b === [email redacted]
Consequence, stated once: with the generic rule out of the compile lane, a client address inside a future gmail or slack receipt rides unredacted; the denylist still blocks client names. If you want the generic rule kept and only your own addresses exempted, put a negative lookahead on it instead of pub: — \b(?!michael\.levin@botify\.com|git@github\.com|<your two other addresses>)[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@... — the four sites are __init__.py, pyproject.toml, and the two in flake.nix, which I can only see as placeholders.
deleteme.txt stays where it is: gitignored, nine times over.
MikeLev.in:
1: Probe:
(nix) pipulate $ g
Blast Radius Check to establish bisection Left-hand Causal Boundary. It is a Popper-thing. Science.
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
(nix) pipulate $ python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --check --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --schema -n 50 --max-bytes 30000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
grep -c '^pub:' ~/.config/pipulate/pii_substitutions.txt
mcp GREEN https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp protocol=2025-06-18 session=yes tools=56 auth=BOTIFY_API_TOKEN scheme=Token
# FDR receipt: /home/mike/repos/pipulate/browser_cache/mcp/redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/20260901T105551137031Z__check.json
# https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp — protocol 2025-06-18 | server r5-redacted-mcp | 56 tool(s) | session=yes
# server instructions (verbatim from initialize):
# This server renders websites in a controlled browser and lets you observe the result, interact with the page, and author rendering configurations (minirules).
#
# Skills (fetch with the get_skill tool before the matching job):
# - curating-shared-memory: Use before writing anything to shared memory — what belongs there versus in your own notes, and the disciplines that keep the store small enough to be worth reading.
# - diagnosing-a-render: Use when a rendered page is empty, broken or missing content — the triage tree from render summaries through console/exceptions, blocked requests, network reasons, timing and emulation sensitivity, with the exact tool for each branch.
# - interactive-rendering-config-creation: Use when a user wants a rendering config built for a website — interview the user, establish a working-permissive render as the information oracle, then iterate a cheap baseline up to it, validating rulesets and proving each change with render diffs, checkpointing with the user.
# - recording-site-knowledge: Use at the end of a config-authoring or debug task — the format for a per-site notes artifact that lets the next run start from what you learned instead of rediscovering it.
# - render-session-fundamentals: Use when starting work with a rendering session — the session lifecycle and its gates, render ids and the retention window, snapshot/uid staleness, render_options_json knobs, emulation timing, the post-render network lockdown, and the evidence-probe discipline that keeps render evidence out of your context.
# - rendering-config-debug: Use when an existing rendering config misbehaves on a site and no user is in the loop — reproduce, triage, simulate the fix before rendering it, verify with diffs, and report the patch with its evidence chain.
# - writing-minirules: Use before writing, editing or reviewing any minirule ruleset — the rule grammar, every engine flag, the matching semantics that cause silent failures, base-set patterns, and the validate→simulate→apply discipline.
#
# Rule of thumb: read writing-minirules before writing or editing any ruleset. The two workflow skills are also available as prompts.
apply_minirules_diff Atomic ruleset safe-edit: final = current - removals + additions, validated, wit
click Click an element by uid (post-render only).
click_at Click at viewport coordinates (x,y); optional double. For targets the snapshot c
close_session Close an AI session.
create_memory Add a shared-memory entry. Only for a lesson that holds for ANY site — strip eve
diff_renders Diff two stored renders: text/link additions+removals, network request delta (ad
drag Drag from one element (from_uid) to another (to_uid).
evaluate_script Evaluate JS expression.
fill Focus an input by uid and set its value.
get_capture_blob Fetch an oversized capture payload (e.g. a trace) by its opaque uri handle.
get_console_message Get one console message by id.
get_issue Get one issue by id.
get_last_render_events Get lifecycle/navigation/intercepted events for the last render.
get_memory Fetch one shared-memory entry in full, including the revision an update must ech
get_network_request Get one network request by id.
get_render_result Fetch a stored render-result field.
get_screencast_frame Fetch one screencast frame (by seq) as an image.
get_skill Fetch a skill body by name. Read writing-minirules before authoring rules; read
handle_dialog Resolve the held JS dialog: action=accept|dismiss.
hover Hover an element by uid.
list_broken_requests List broken requests for a render. See get_skill("diagnosing-a-render") for the
list_console_messages List captured console messages.
list_dialogs List captured JS dialogs.
list_downloads List captured downloads.
list_env_options List the chromium/network/provider options an AI session may select (with defaul
... +31 more (raise -n/--max)
# FDR receipt: /home/mike/repos/pipulate/browser_cache/mcp/redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/20260901T105552203208Z__tools_list.json
# https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp — protocol 2025-06-18 | server r5-redacted-mcp | 56 tool(s) | session=yes
# server instructions (verbatim from initialize):
# This server renders websites in a controlled browser and lets you observe the result, interact with the page, and author rendering configurations (minirules).
#
# Skills (fetch with the get_skill tool before the matching job):
# - curating-shared-memory: Use before writing anything to shared memory — what belongs there versus in your own notes, and the disciplines that keep the store small enough to be worth reading.
# - diagnosing-a-render: Use when a rendered page is empty, broken or missing content — the triage tree from render summaries through console/exceptions, blocked requests, network reasons, timing and emulation sensitivity, with the exact tool for each branch.
# - interactive-rendering-config-creation: Use when a user wants a rendering config built for a website — interview the user, establish a working-permissive render as the information oracle, then iterate a cheap baseline up to it, validating rulesets and proving each change with render diffs, checkpointing with the user.
# - recording-site-knowledge: Use at the end of a config-authoring or debug task — the format for a per-site notes artifact that lets the next run start from what you learned instead of rediscovering it.
# - render-session-fundamentals: Use when starting work with a rendering session — the session lifecycle and its gates, render ids and the retention window, snapshot/uid staleness, render_options_json knobs, emulation timing, the post-render network lockdown, and the evidence-probe discipline that keeps render evidence out of your context.
# - rendering-config-debug: Use when an existing rendering config misbehaves on a site and no user is in the loop — reproduce, triage, simulate the fix before rendering it, verify with diffs, and report the patch with its evidence chain.
# - writing-minirules: Use before writing, editing or reviewing any minirule ruleset — the rule grammar, every engine flag, the matching semantics that cause silent failures, base-set patterns, and the validate→simulate→apply discipline.
#
# Rule of thumb: read writing-minirules before writing or editing any ruleset. The two workflow skills are also available as prompts.
[
{
"description": "Atomic ruleset safe-edit: final = current - removals + additions, validated, with the resource decisions that change on the last render's captured requests. See get_skill(\"writing-minirules\") for the grammar and authoring discipline.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session whose last render anchors the impact simulation"
},
"current": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "the current ruleset (full, ordered; matching is first-match-wins)"
},
"additions": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "rule lines to append at the end"
},
"removals": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "exact rule lines to remove from current; a removal matching nothing is an error"
},
"atomic_validate": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "validate + impact-simulate the merged ruleset (default true); on any error nothing is returned (atomic)"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"current"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "apply_minirules_diff"
},
{
"description": "Click an element by uid (post-render only).",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to click in"
},
"uid": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the snapshot node uid to click"
},
"double": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "if true, perform a double-click"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"uid"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "click"
},
{
"description": "Click at viewport coordinates (x,y); optional double. For targets the snapshot can't address.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to click in"
},
"x": {
"type": "number",
"description": "viewport x coordinate"
},
"y": {
"type": "number",
"description": "viewport y coordinate"
},
"double": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "if true, perform a double-click"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"x",
"y"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "click_at"
},
{
"description": "Close an AI session.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the AI session to act on"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "close_session"
},
{
"description": "Add a shared-memory entry. Only for a lesson that holds for ANY site \u2014 strip every site-specific detail first, and search before adding. See get_skill(\"curating-shared-memory\").",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"topic": {
"type": "string",
"description": "an existing topic from list_memory_topics; add a new one only when nothing fits"
},
"title": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the lesson in one line \u2014 this is what other agents scan"
},
"body": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the generalizable lesson, with every site-specific detail removed"
}
},
"required": [
"topic",
"title",
"body"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "create_memory"
},
{
"description": "Diff two stored renders: text/link additions+removals, network request delta (added/removed/blocked-flips) and summary stats.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session that performed both renders"
},
"render_id_a": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the baseline render"
},
"render_id_b": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the comparison render"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"render_id_a",
"render_id_b"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "diff_renders"
},
{
"description": "Drag from one element (from_uid) to another (to_uid).",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to drag in"
},
"from_uid": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the snapshot node uid to drag from"
},
"to_uid": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the snapshot node uid to drag to"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"from_uid",
"to_uid"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "drag"
},
{
"description": "Evaluate JS expression.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to evaluate in"
},
"expression": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the JavaScript expression to evaluate"
},
"await_promise": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "if true, await a returned promise before resolving"
},
"main_world": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "if true, evaluate in the page's main world instead of an isolated world"
},
"timeout_ms": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "optional evaluation timeout in milliseconds",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"expression"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "evaluate_script"
},
{
"description": "Focus an input by uid and set its value.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to fill in"
},
"uid": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the snapshot node uid of the input to focus"
},
"value": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the value to set on the input"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"uid",
"value"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "fill"
},
{
"description": "Fetch an oversized capture payload (e.g. a trace) by its opaque uri handle.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session"
},
"uri": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the opaque blob handle (e.g. a trace_uri)"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"uri"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "get_capture_blob"
},
{
"description": "Get one console message by id.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to fetch the event from"
},
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the id of the event to fetch"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "get_console_message"
},
{
"description": "Get one issue by id.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to fetch the event from"
},
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the id of the event to fetch"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "get_issue"
},
{
"description": "Get lifecycle/navigation/intercepted events for the last render.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the AI session to act on"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "get_last_render_events"
},
{
"description": "Fetch one shared-memory entry in full, including the revision an update must echo back.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the entry id, from list_memory or search_memory"
}
},
"required": [
"id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "get_memory"
},
{
"description": "Get one network request by id.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to fetch the event from"
},
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the id of the event to fetch"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "get_network_request"
},
{
"description": "Fetch a stored render-result field.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session that performed the render"
},
"render_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the render to fetch a stored field from"
},
"field": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the render-result field to fetch, e.g. html"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"render_id",
"field"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "get_render_result"
},
{
"description": "Fetch one screencast frame (by seq) as an image.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session"
},
"screencast_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the screencast_id"
},
"seq": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "the zero-based frame index to fetch",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"screencast_id",
"seq"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "get_screencast_frame"
},
{
"description": "Fetch a skill body by name. Read writing-minirules before authoring rules; read the workflow skills before config creation/debug jobs.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the skill to fetch; discover names with list_skills"
}
},
"required": [
"name"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "get_skill"
},
{
"description": "Resolve the held JS dialog: action=accept|dismiss.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session holding the dialog"
},
"action": {
"type": "string",
"description": "accept or dismiss"
},
"prompt_text": {
"type": "string",
"description": "optional text to enter for a prompt dialog before accepting"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"action"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "handle_dialog"
},
{
"description": "Hover an element by uid.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to hover in"
},
"uid": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the snapshot node uid to hover"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"uid"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "hover"
},
{
"description": "List broken requests for a render. See get_skill(\"diagnosing-a-render\") for the full triage tree.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session that performed the render"
},
"render_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the render to inspect for broken requests"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"render_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "list_broken_requests"
},
{
"description": "List captured console messages.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to list events for"
},
"since": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "return events with id/cursor strictly greater than this",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
},
"filter": {
"type": "string",
"description": "optional substring filter on event text"
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "maximum number of events to return",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "list_console_messages"
},
{
"description": "List captured JS dialogs.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to list events for"
},
"since": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "return events with id/cursor strictly greater than this",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
},
"filter": {
"type": "string",
"description": "optional substring filter on event text"
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "maximum number of events to return",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "list_dialogs"
},
{
"description": "List captured downloads.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to list events for"
},
"since": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "return events with id/cursor strictly greater than this",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
},
"filter": {
"type": "string",
"description": "optional substring filter on event text"
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "maximum number of events to return",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "list_downloads"
},
{
"description": "List the chromium/network/provider options an AI session may select (with defaults).",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "list_env_options"
},
{
"description": "List captured DevTools issues.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to list events for"
},
"since": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "return events with id/cursor strictly greater than this",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
},
"filter": {
"type": "string",
"description": "optional substring filter on event text"
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "maximum number of events to return",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "list_issues"
},
{
"description": "List captured JS exceptions.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to list events for"
},
"since": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "return events with id/cursor strictly greater than this",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
},
"filter": {
"type": "string",
"description": "optional substring filter on event text"
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "maximum number of events to return",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "list_js_exceptions"
},
{
"description": "List every shared-memory entry (id, topic, title). Read this before writing: updating an existing entry is the default, creating one is the exception. See get_skill(\"curating-shared-memory\").",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "list_memory"
},
{
"description": "List the topics in use, with a count each. Reuse one; add a new topic only when nothing existing fits.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "list_memory_topics"
},
{
"description": "List captured network requests.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to list events for"
},
"since": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "return events with id/cursor strictly greater than this",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
},
"filter": {
"type": "string",
"description": "optional substring filter on event text"
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "maximum number of events to return",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "list_network_requests"
},
{
"description": "List buffered screencast frame handles for a screencast_id (optionally from a since index).",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session"
},
"screencast_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the screencast_id"
},
"since": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "return frames from this index onward",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"screencast_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "list_screencast_frames"
},
{
"description": "List your active AI sessions and their env URIs.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "list_sessions"
},
{
"description": "List the agent skills this server provides (name + when to use). Fetch one with get_skill.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "list_skills"
},
{
"description": "Open an AI session (non-blocking).",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"chromium": {
"type": "string",
"description": "optional chromium env override; see list_env_options"
},
"network": {
"type": "string",
"description": "optional network env override; see list_env_options"
},
"provider": {
"type": "string",
"description": "optional provider env override; see list_env_options"
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "open_session"
},
{
"description": "Start a performance trace. Arm it before the first render to capture page-load, or reload=true post-render to re-render under trace, or call it post-render for live runtime tracing. See get_skill('render-session-fundamentals').",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to trace"
},
"categories": {
"type": "string",
"description": "comma-separated trace categories (default: DevTools timeline set)"
},
"reload": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "post-render only: arm a trace then re-render the current URL under it"
},
"max_duration_ms": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "auto-stop the trace after this many ms",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "performance_start_trace"
},
{
"description": "Stop a trace and return its events (inline if small, else a trace_uri to fetch via get_capture_blob).",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session"
},
"trace_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the trace_id returned by performance_start_trace"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"trace_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "performance_stop_trace"
},
{
"description": "Reset cookies/storage/IndexedDB/cache without destroying the session.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session whose browser context to clear"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "pocket_puppet_clear_browser_context"
},
{
"description": "Get the page outerHTML with shadow DOM (lz4-compressed).",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the AI session to act on"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "pocket_puppet_get_outer_html_with_shadow_dom"
},
{
"description": "Freeze page JS execution (workers continue). Post-render only. Debug primitive.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to freeze JS in"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "pocket_puppet_stop_js"
},
{
"description": "Press a key chord, e.g. \"Enter\" or \"Control+A\".",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to press the key in"
},
"key": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the key chord to press, e.g. Enter or Control+A"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"key"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "press_key"
},
{
"description": "Read-only. Given a feedback draft (the same fields submit_session_feedback takes), return the authoritative listing of everything a submission would send: your four content fields, the context the server stamps (username, exec_env_uri, cube_id), and per session the tool calls, render effort, URLs rendered and JavaScript injected that travel with it, plus where it is stored. If this task spanned several sessions \u2014 one wedged, one was reaped, one died before it was ready \u2014 name the earlier ones in ancestor_session_ids and they are listed too; a session that has ENDED can still be reported on for a limited time, and one whose evidence is already gone is named as unavailable rather than failing the call. Show the listing to the human VERBATIM \u2014 do not summarise or paraphrase it \u2014 then ask whether to send it and for an optional 1-5 rating. Sends nothing and changes nothing; submit_session_feedback does the sending.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session you are reporting on"
},
"ancestor_session_ids": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "ids of THIS task's earlier sessions, if it spanned more than one (a session that wedged, was reaped, or died before it was ready). Their recorded tool calls are listed too. An id whose evidence has already expired is listed as unavailable and does not fail the call"
},
"findings": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the task outcome \u2014 what you concluded or produced"
},
"friction": {
"type": "string",
"description": "what was hard or slow (slow render sessions, a confusing tool, \u2026)"
},
"inconsistencies": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "tool/render-session behaviour that surprised you or contradicted the docs \u2014 not the target site's own quirks"
},
"feature_requests": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "tools, capabilities or changes that would have made you faster"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "preview_session_feedback"
},
{
"description": "Render a URL. See get_skill(\"render-session-fundamentals\") for session lifecycle, options and gates.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to render in"
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "absolute URL to render"
},
"render_options_json": {
"type": "string",
"description": "optional JSON-encoded RenderOptions + minirules"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"url"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "render"
},
{
"description": "Resize the viewport to width x height (convenience over set_emulation viewport).",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to resize"
},
"width": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "viewport width in CSS pixels",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
},
"height": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "viewport height in CSS pixels",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"width",
"height"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "resize_viewport"
},
{
"description": "Start capturing screencast frames of the tab (e.g. across a render). Frames are buffered; fetch with list_screencast_frames + get_screencast_frame.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to screencast"
},
"format": {
"type": "string",
"description": "image format (default jpeg)"
},
"quality": {
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# ! python scripts/articles/lsa.py -t 1 --reverse --fmt dated-slugs # <-- The "Rolling Pin" that gives the 40K foot book-spine view of book-ore.
# GLOSSARY.md # <-- I think this glossary goes well with the book-ore spine to do world building.
# scripts/articles/lsa.py # <-- Useful for refining commands like `posts`, critical to Second Brain concept.
# ~/repos/nixos/autognome.py # <-- Letting the AIs really understand my environment (The Brave Little Tailor punches above Their Weight Class proving the dunning-kruger effect the gate-keeper's (lower-case) lament.)
# init.lua # <-- Daily driver hot-keys that overlap with aliases in flake.nix
# STILL BIG BUT LESS OPTIONAL (especially flake.nix)
flake.nix # <-- THE ONE BIG THING TO INCLUDE Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tells LLM about your system down to the metal
prompt_foo.py # <-- This very content-compiling system
# foo_files.py # <-- This is the router, evolving book outline and the things you pin-up to produced the recursive self-improvement loops
# TINY ILLUMINATING (OK to include every time / automatically = `apply.py`, `.gitignore`, `.gitattributes`)
requirements.in # <-- All known dependencies and (necessary) version pinning. WORA gotcha's exposed.
__init__.py # <-- Master versioning
pyproject.toml # <-- The PyPI Packaging details
# OPTIONAL ACTUATORS (cheap and good to include to expand the AI's capabilities)
# cli.py # <-- Catch-all actuator for PyPI envs, Python anchoring, MCP tool-call (plus alternatives) and **kwargs like wrapping for CLI
# scripts/xp.py # <-- Transforms host OS copy-paste buffer player-piano music into context-payload.
# scripts/ai.py # <-- How I constantly use local AI to write git commit messages with `m` alias.
# scripts/crawl.py # <-- Feel free to ask for something to be crawled and included in the next turn.
# scripts/weblogin.py # <-- Lets the user "warm up" the cache for their web logins at their leisure on a profile that persists.
# MISCELLANEOUS (rare to include but sometimes critical)
# scripts/foo_cartridge.py # Needs description
# scripts/foo_replay.py # Needs description
# release.py # <-- How everything ends up where it does (GitHub, PyPI, etc.)
# imports/voice_synthesis.py # <-- The wand can talk to you
# imports/ascii_displays.py # <-- Where all the ASCII Art lives
# scripts/release/version_sync.py # <-- Needs to be wrapped into release.py and eliminated, I think.
# --- Under this line is were you paste what the AI gives you ---
# --- We call it context but it's really just the right-hand ---
# --- blast-radius of the "probes" to make this all science. ---
# --- END `adhoc.txt` TEMPLATE ---
# STICKBUG & MOTHER CAT KATA
# assets/trails/botify_pageworkers.yaml
# assets/installer/mck.sh
# assets/installer/replay.sh
# assets/trails/first_context.yaml
# assets/trails/practice.yaml
# assets/trails/public_walk.yaml
# scripts/bookmark_import.py
# scripts/boot_menu.py
# scripts/connectors/README.md
# scripts/connectors/botify.py
# scripts/connectors/confluence.py
# scripts/connectors/gmail.py
# scripts/connectors/gsc.py
# scripts/connectors/jira.py
# scripts/connectors/mcp.py
# scripts/connectors/mcp_warm.py
# scripts/connectors/sheets.py
# scripts/connectors/slack.py
# scripts/connectors/wallet.py
# scripts/mother_cat.py
# scripts/sources_menu.py
# scripts/walk.py
# scripts/walk_cartridge.py
# scripts/walk_compile.py
# scripts/weblogin.py
# tools/scraper_tools.py
# # # adhoc.txt -- Cleanup inert public_walk environment export block
# #
# # # --- BEFORE/AFTER STRADDLE ---
# # ! grep -n -C 2 'PIPULATE_TRAIL_WALK_ONE_URL' assets/installer/mck.sh || echo "export_block_removed"
# # ! bash -n assets/installer/mck.sh; echo "mck_syntax=$?"
# # ! bash assets/installer/mck.sh --where
# #
# # # --- TARGET SCRIPT ---
# # assets/installer/mck.sh
# #
# # ! rg -n -F 'TRAIL_NAME="${TRAIL_NAME:-public_walk}"' assets/installer/mck.sh
# # ! rg -n -e '^ *walk\(\)' -e '^ *alias walk=' flake.nix; echo "shell_walk_exit=$?"
# # ! test -e walk; echo "root_walk_exists=$?"
# # ! rg -n -e 'alias mothercat=' -e 'Three words to start from' flake.nix scripts/boot_menu.py
# # flake.nix
# # scripts/boot_menu.py
# # assets/installer/mck.sh
#
# # ! bash -n walk; echo "walk_syntax=$?"
# # ! bash walk --where
# # ! rg -n -e '^ *alias walk=' -e '^ *walk\(\)' -e 'writeShellScriptBin "walk"' flake.nix; echo "shell_walk_exit=$?"
# # ! .venv/bin/python -c 'import sys; sys.path.insert(0,"scripts"); import boot_menu as b; print("count=" + b._count_word(len(b.DOOR_TWO_WORDS))); print(" ".join(w for w, _ in b.DOOR_TWO_WORDS))'
# # walk
# # flake.nix
# # scripts/boot_menu.py
# # assets/installer/mck.sh
#
# # ! rg -in "three words|four words|door 2" flake.nix scripts/ assets/ README.md
# # ! walk --where
# # walk
# # flake.nix
# # scripts/boot_menu.py
# # assets/installer/mck.sh
#
# # ! python scripts/connectors/wallet.py check slack
# # ! python -c "import os, sys; from pathlib import Path; sys.path.insert(0, '.'); from scripts.connectors import wallet; pairs = wallet._dotenv_pairs(); print('env SLACK_USER_TOKEN:', bool(os.getenv('SLACK_USER_TOKEN')), 'env SLACK_BOT_TOKEN:', bool(os.getenv('SLACK_BOT_TOKEN')), 'vault SLACK_USER_TOKEN:', 'SLACK_USER_TOKEN' in pairs, 'vault SLACK_BOT_TOKEN:', 'SLACK_BOT_TOKEN' in pairs)"
# # ! python scripts/connectors/wallet.py warm slack --dry-run
#
# /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/_posts/2026-08-30-terminal-native-mcp-practice.md
# deleteme.txt
# Now that slack is working (on my workspace) we trim back things here to just the stick bug and Mother Cat Kata stuff
deleteme.txt
# flake.nix and prompt_foo.py: comment both out -- 71K tokens the WET car cannot use
deleteme.txt # <-- the vendor card; the WET docstring cites it
scripts/connectors/README.md
scripts/connectors/mcp.py # <-- the envelope the WET file copies verbatim
scripts/connectors/botify.py # <-- the Token-scheme sibling
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --check --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --schema -n 50 --max-bytes 30000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! grep -c '^pub:' ~/.config/pipulate/pii_substitutions.txt
3: Patches: None
4: Prompt: The render-farm receipts are in the Manifest: –check (GREEN line with session=yes/no, or a gate-named RED), tools/list with any server instructions, and the full –schema JSON for https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp. deleteme.txt is the vendor’s own card. From those receipts only, write scripts/connectors/botify_render.py as a WET connector per connectors/README.md: first docstring line under 61 chars for the sources roster; copy mcp.py’s envelope (make_client with scheme Token, parse_body, post, initialize) verbatim; token from BOTIFY_API_TOKEN via the same get_botify_token botify.py uses; –check per THE EXIT-CODE PROTOCOL so a wallet slot named botify_render can score it. Then the two things mcp.py must never grow, shaped by the schema: (a) a session ledger at ~/.config/pipulate/mcp/redacted.production.botify.com:redacted__mcp.session.json holding whatever id the server actually uses – Mcp-Session-Id, an application-level id, or both – read on every later invocation, –new-session to discard; (b) if a render returns a job id or poll URL, a bounded –wait loop (–every N, –for M seconds), one receipt line per poll, exit 1 on timeout printing the exact resume command. Golden path: botify_render
5: Deliverables: Myelinating not even yet in progress! Train me. How to make a peanut butter sandwich rules.
Fable 5 Extra: Context verified. Three receipts up front:
- Render canary still linkified (
[www.canary.invalid](https://www.canary.invalid)); no patch rides, so nothing can quote a rewritten token. - PII: landed.
grep -c '^pub:'reads 1, and the in-payload witness I promised is here:__init__.pyarrived carrying[email redacted]unredacted, flake.nix carries[email redacted]and[email redacted]bare. Zero🧼lines from now on for default files. Done; not another word on it. - The schema receipt is truncated (30,000 bytes cut it inside
start_screencast, 12 of 56 tools unseen), so by your own caboose rule the WET file does not get written this turn. That is fine, because you asked for the other thing, and the other thing has to come first anyway: you cannot write a connector for a session lifecycle you have never driven by hand.
What the render farm told us
session=yes — this server issues Mcp-Session-Id, so there are two sessions in play, and it is worth keeping them straight because they are the two things you described in the article:
- Transport session (
Mcp-Session-Id). mcp.py captures it atinitializeand carries it for the life of one process. You never type it. Everymcpinvocation is a fresh one. - AI session (
session_id). Every one of the 56 tools takes it exceptopen_session,list_sessions,list_env_options, the memory tools and the skill tools.open_sessionmints it and is labelled non-blocking — that is your “answer me later”: you get an id back before the browser is ready, andlist_sessionsis how you ask whether it is ready yet.close_sessionends it. This is the id you carry forward, by hand, between separatemcpcommands. The browser behind it holds cookies and localStorage, which is exactly the “second request differs from the first” experiment;pocket_puppet_clear_browser_contextresets that without killing the session.
render returns a render id (the schema says get_render_result, diff_renders, and list_broken_requests all take one), and the contract for the gates, ids and retention window is written down in a document the server hands out: get_skill("render-session-fundamentals"). That document is probe 1 below. It is the self-discovery you were describing — the part Claude does — and reading it once by hand is the point.
One hazard, named and not patched: mcp.py’s TIMEOUT is 30 seconds. If render blocks longer than that you will see an httpx.ReadTimeout traceback. That is a finding, not a failure — it tells us render is slow-synchronous and the WET file needs its own timeout — so if it happens, keep the traceback.
The peanut butter sandwich
Type these at the (nix) pipulate $ prompt. Two variables first, once per shell, so every line after is short:
R=https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp
A="--auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN"
$A is unquoted on every line below on purpose: it has to split into four words. Where a command needs your session id, the quoting pattern is '{"session_id":"'$S'"}' — the single quotes close, the variable expands, the single quotes reopen. Read each step as TYPE, then SEE, then COPY.
-
TYPE
mcp $R --check $A. SEE one line startingmcp GREENwithsession=yes tools=56. Nothing to copy. If it is RED, stop; the gate name is the diagnosis. -
TYPE
mcp $R $A. SEE the server’s own instructions, then 25 tool names. Read the instructions once. Nothing to copy. -
TYPE
mcp $R get_skill '{"name":"render-session-fundamentals"}' --dclass D1 --max-bytes 20000 $A. SEE the four-tuple receipt, then a JSON body whosetextfield is the contract. Read it once. Nothing to copy. (D1 because a skill document is a stable read.) -
TYPE
mcp $R list_sessions '{}' --dclass D2 $A. SEE an empty list, or leftovers from earlier hand practice. Nothing to copy. -
TYPE
mcp $R open_session '{}' --dclass D2 $A. SEE a body containing a session id and probably a state. COPY the id: TYPES=followed by the pasted id, no spaces. -
TYPE
mcp $R list_sessions '{}' --dclass D2 $A. SEE your session and its state. If the state is not ready, wait five seconds and repeat this step. This loop, done by hand, is the poll the WET file will own. -
TYPE
mcp $R render '{"session_id":"'$S'","url":"https://example.com/"}' --dclass D2 --max-bytes 8000 $A. SEE a render summary. COPY the render id: TYPERID=followed by the pasted id. If instead you see a session-not-ready error, go back to step 6. If you seeReadTimeout, keep the traceback; that is the 30-second finding. -
TYPE
mcp $R list_console_messages '{"session_id":"'$S'","limit":25}' --dclass D2 $A. SEE console lines. Nothing to copy. -
TYPE
mcp $R list_network_requests '{"session_id":"'$S'","limit":25}' --dclass D2 $A. SEE the request ledger. Nothing to copy. -
TYPE
mcp $R get_render_result '{"session_id":"'$S'","render_id":"'$RID'","field":"html"}' --dclass D1 --max-bytes 4000 $A. SEE the first 4,000 bytes of rendered HTML. -
TYPE
mcp $R close_session '{"session_id":"'$S'"}' --dclass D2 $A. SEE an acknowledgement. -
TYPE
mcp $R list_sessions '{}' --dclass D2 $A. SEE the empty list again. That is the sandwich.
Every step writes an FDR receipt under browser_cache/mcp/redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/, so the flight is recorded whether or not you remember it. Steps 5–11 open, mutate and close a server-side session, which is why they are never echoed into adhoc.txt: a compile would open a new session every time it ran. Paste that part of your terminal transcript into prompt.md instead — it is the receipt the WET file is written from.
1. PROBES
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp get_skill '{"name":"render-session-fundamentals"}' --dclass D1 --max-bytes 20000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp list_env_options '{}' --dclass D1 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --schema -n 56 --max-bytes 80000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN | python -c 'import sys,json; t=sys.stdin.read(); j=json.loads(t[t.index("\n[\n")+1:]); print(len(j), "tools total; the tail the 30000-byte receipt cut:"); print(json.dumps(j[43:], indent=2))'
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp list_sessions '{}' --dclass D2 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
Line 1 is the contract document, in the payload where the WET file can be written from it (it is vendor documentation for your own employer’s server; if that should not ride to a cloud chat, run it by hand only and say so). Line 2 is the env menu open_session accepts. Line 3 closes the schema gap: all 56 tools fetched untruncated, then only the 13 the last receipt cut are printed — the whole set would cost 17K tokens for 44 tools you already have. Line 4 is the AFTER reading for step 12 of the sandwich: it should be empty, and if it is not, a session leaked and the WET file’s identity walk needs to say so.
2. NEXT CONTEXT
# flake.nix and prompt_foo.py: COMMENT THEM OUT this time -- they were 71K of this compile's 138K tokens
deleteme.txt
scripts/connectors/README.md
scripts/connectors/mcp.py
scripts/connectors/botify.py
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --check --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp get_skill '{"name":"render-session-fundamentals"}' --dclass D1 --max-bytes 20000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp list_env_options '{}' --dclass D1 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --schema -n 56 --max-bytes 80000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN | python -c 'import sys,json; t=sys.stdin.read(); j=json.loads(t[t.index("\n[\n")+1:]); print(len(j), "tools total; the tail the 30000-byte receipt cut:"); print(json.dumps(j[43:], indent=2))'
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp list_sessions '{}' --dclass D2 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
The bare tools/list line and the 30,000-byte schema line come out; both are banked in this payload and the tail probe replaces the second. --check stays as the one-line regression.
3. PATCHES
No repo patches required. mcp.py drives the whole sandwich as-is; the 30-second TIMEOUT is left alone until a render actually trips it.
4. PROMPT
Receipts are in the Manifest: --check, the render-session-fundamentals skill document (the server's own contract for session lifecycle, gates, render ids and retention), list_env_options, the schema tail for the 13 tools the earlier receipt cut, and list_sessions. Below this prompt is my pasted terminal transcript of the hand ladder: open_session, the list_sessions poll, render of https://example.com/, list_console_messages, list_network_requests, get_render_result, close_session -- including any ReadTimeout. From those receipts only, write scripts/connectors/botify_render.py as a WET connector per connectors/README.md: first docstring line under 61 chars; mcp.py's envelope copied verbatim with scheme Token and BOTIFY_API_TOKEN via botify.py's get_botify_token; its own TIMEOUT sized from what the transcript shows render actually takes; --check per THE EXIT-CODE PROTOCOL. Modes: no argument = identity (list_sessions plus the ledger state); `open` = open_session, poll list_sessions until the state the skill document names as ready, write ~/.config/pipulate/mcp/redacted.production.botify.com:redacted__mcp.session.json; `<url>` = render in the ledger's session, print the render id and the summary; `console`, `network`, `html <render_id>` = the three lenses, bounded by -n; `close` = close_session and clear the ledger; --new-session discards a stale ledger. Every poll prints one receipt line; timeouts exit 1 and print the exact resume command. If any receipt is missing or the transcript shows a shape the skill document contradicts, say so and stop; do not invent, and do not touch mcp.py.
5. EXTERNAL DELIVERABLES
None outside the machine. The one manual artifact is the pasted transcript of sandwich steps 5–12 into prompt.md — the mutation receipts that cannot ride as ! lines.
MikeLev.in:
1: Probe:
Blast Radius Check to establish bisection Left-hand Causal Boundary. It is a Popper-thing. Science.
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
(nix) pipulate $ python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp get_skill '{"name":"render-session-fundamentals"}' --dclass D1 --max-bytes 20000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp list_env_options '{}' --dclass D1 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --schema -n 56 --max-bytes 80000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN | python -c 'import sys,json; t=sys.stdin.read(); j=json.loads(t[t.index("\n[\n")+1:]); print(len(j), "tools total; the tail the 30000-byte receipt cut:"); print(json.dumps(j[43:], indent=2))'
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp list_sessions '{}' --dclass D2 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
# MCP RECEIPT (four-tuple; args byte-for-byte as submitted)
# server: https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp
# verb: tools/call
# tool: get_skill
# args: {"name":"render-session-fundamentals"}
# determinism: D1 (declared) — stable read — reproducible until server-side state mutates
# observed_at: 2026-09-01T11:43:57Z
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"result": {
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "{\"name\":\"render-session-fundamentals\",\"description\":\"Use when starting work with a rendering session \u2014 the session lifecycle and its gates, render ids and the retention window, snapshot/uid staleness, render_options_json knobs, emulation timing, the post-render network lockdown, and the evidence-probe discipline that keeps render evidence out of your context.\",\"body\":\"## \u00a71 Session lifecycle\\n\\nA session is a persistent browser context. Use it in this order:\\n\\n1. Call `open_session` \u2014 it returns a `session_id`. Provisioning is asynchronous.\\n2. Poll `session_state` until `state == \\\"ready\\\"` before doing anything else.\\n3. Call `render(session_id, url, render_options_json?)` to load a page. Each `render` opens\\n a **fresh tab with cleared context** \u2014 cookies, local storage, and prior DOM are gone.\\n4. After the render completes, the page stays open. Inspect it, interact with it, run scripts.\\n5. Before closing, file the retrospective with the human's consent. The server attaches the\\n tool-call chain automatically, so a submission carries the URLs you rendered and the\\n JavaScript you injected out of this environment \u2014 the human decides whether that is sent,\\n and they decide it against the server's own listing, not your description of it:\\n a. Call `preview_session_feedback(session_id, \u2026)` with your draft \u2014 findings, friction,\\n inconsistencies (tool/session behavior that surprised you or contradicted the docs, never\\n the target site's own quirks), feature_requests. It sends nothing; it returns the\\n authoritative listing of exactly what a submission would carry.\\n b. Show that listing to the human **verbatim** \u2014 never a summary or paraphrase of it \u2014 then\\n ask whether to send it, and for an optional 1-5 rating of this platform.\\n c. Only on an explicit yes, call `submit_session_feedback(session_id, \u2026, consent_granted:\\n true)` with the same fields, adding `rating` only if they gave one \u2014 never infer, guess or\\n invent a rating. Silence, \\\"maybe\\\", or no answer means send nothing. The listing must still\\n be current when you submit: any tool call made after the preview invalidates it, because\\n the submission would then carry URLs or scripts the human never saw \u2014 go back to (a) and\\n get a fresh yes.\\n **One task, several sessions.** If this task ran through more than one session \u2014 one wedged,\\n one was reaped for idleness, one died before it ever reached ready \u2014 pass the earlier ids in\\n `ancestor_session_ids` on both calls. Their recorded tool calls are attached and listed\\n alongside the current session's, so the retrospective describes the whole task instead of\\n only its last attempt. That is the feedback the render team most needs. A session's evidence\\n survives its ending for a limited window, so an id whose window has already elapsed is simply\\n reported back as unavailable \u2014 it never fails the call. Do not name sessions from other tasks.\\n **If no human is in this loop, do not submit at all** \u2014 a script-driven run, a\\n non-interactive workflow, an agent with nobody to ask. Skip this step; there is no\\n partial version of it. Consent is self-attested, so the only way to \\\"complete\\\" the step\\n without a human is to attest one who does not exist, and the record keeps that claim\\n permanently. Write the retrospective into whatever you report instead \u2014 that is its terminal\\n form, and in practice nobody files it for you afterwards: the recorded tool calls outlive\\n the session only briefly, and only an agent still running can name it as an ancestor.\\n Do this before `close_session` rather than after, while the session is unambiguously yours.\\n Safe to repeat in a long session; every submission needs its own yes.\\n6. Call `close_session` when the work is done. Do not leave sessions open indefinitely.\\n\\n## \u00a72 Gates \u2014 errors that mean \\\"wait\\\" or \\\"resolve first\\\"\\n\\n**Render in progress**: mutating tools (`click`, `fill`, `hover`, `drag`, etc.)\\nreturn `AI_ERR_RENDER_IN_PROGRESS` while a render is running. Wait for the render to finish\\nbefore driving the page.\\n\\n**Dialog open**: while a JS dialog (alert, confirm, prompt, beforeunload) is held open, the\\ntools that touch the page error with `AI_ERR_SESSION_WRONG_STATE: dialog open`. Affected tools\\nare the input tools (`click`, `fill`, `type_text`, `press_key`, `hover`, `click_at`,\\n`drag`), `take_snapshot`, `evaluate_script`, and `wait_for`.\\nObservability reads (`list_*`/`get_*`, `take_screenshot`) and the rule tools still work.\\nCheck the result of any input tool for `dialog_pending: true` \u2014 that flag means a dialog just\\nappeared. Resolve it immediately:\\n\\n[triple-backtick]\\nhandle_dialog(action: \\\"accept\\\" | \\\"dismiss\\\", prompt_text?)\\n[triple-backtick]\\n\\n`prompt_text` is only needed for `prompt` dialogs that expect user input. After `handle_dialog`\\nsucceeds, normal tool access is restored.\\n\\n## \u00a73 Render ids and the retention window\\n\\n`render` returns a `render_id`. Use it with:\\n\\n- `get_render_result(render_id, field)` \u2014 fetch stored `html`, `text`, or `links`.\\n- `diff_renders(render_id_a, render_id_b)` \u2014 compare two renders.\\n\\nThe session retains only a **small bounded window of recent renders** (default 4; a deployment\\nmay raise it). Eviction is **FIFO by insertion order, not LRU** \u2014 when the window is full the\\n*oldest* render is dropped, even one you fetched a moment ago. Its stored payloads are then\\ngone.\\n\\n**Treat the window as a live cache, not your dataset.** The durable store is the files you\\nwrite; the window only holds the few renders currently in flight. The discipline that follows\\nfrom FIFO eviction:\\n\\n- **Extract, then advance.** After each render, immediately pull what you need\\n (`get_render_result` for `links`/`text`/`html`, and `diff_renders` against the one reference)\\n and **persist it to a file**. Only then start the next render. The render may expire right\\n after \u2014 you already own its data.\\n- **Never render ahead of extraction.** Because eviction is FIFO, a render you have not fetched\\n is evicted by newer renders regardless of how recently you touched it. Keep the number of\\n un-extracted renders below the window size, with room for the reference you are diffing\\n against.\\n- **\\\"Parallel renders\\\" is a trap, twice over.** Renders **serialize per session** (one browser,\\n one tab at a time), so firing several at once gains no speed \u2014 it only races the oldest ones\\n into eviction before you can read them. Render one at a time.\\n- **Sweeping many pages? Finish each page before the next.** Render \u2192 extract \u2192 persist for one\\n URL, then move on. Do not batch-render across pages and read them later; the window is sized\\n for the working set of one comparison (baseline + a candidate + a reference), not for every\\n page held live at once.\\n\\n## \u00a74 Snapshots and uid staleness\\n\\n`take_snapshot` returns an accessibility tree. Every node has a `uid` used by `click`, `fill`,\\n`hover`, and `drag`. **Uids go stale across renders.** Re-snapshot after every\\n`render` call \u2014 never reuse uids from a previous render.\\n\\nFor targets that the accessibility tree cannot address (canvas elements, custom overlays,\\nelements obscured from the tree):\\n\\n- Fall back to `click_at(x, y)` with coordinates.\\n- Measure coordinates via `evaluate_script` using `getBoundingClientRect` on the element.\\n\\n## \u00a75 `render_options_json` knobs\\n\\nPass `render_options_json` as a JSON object to `render`. Useful fields:\\n\\n**Resource policy**\\n\\n[triple-backtick]json\\n{\\\"resources\\\": {\\\"whitelistAll\\\": \\\"YES\\\"}}\\n[triple-backtick]\\n\\n`\\\"YES\\\"` bypasses minirule evaluation entirely \u2014 all resources are allowed. Set `\\\"NO\\\"` when\\nyour rules must control resource outcomes. See the `writing-minirules` skill for rule grammar.\\n\\n**Resource-type policy** \u2014 block whole classes of resource at the fetch layer, independent of\\nminirules. These are the cheapest way to cut cost: a disabled type never fetches, no rule\\nneeded.\\n\\n[triple-backtick]json\\n{\\\"resources\\\": {\\\"noResources\\\": \\\"YES\\\"}}\\n[triple-backtick]\\n\\n| Field (`YES`/`NO`) | Effect |\\n|--------------------|--------|\\n| `noResources` | Block **every** subresource \u2014 the document loads alone. The true floor. |\\n| `noJs` | Disable JavaScript execution |\\n| `noCss` | Block stylesheets |\\n| `noImages` / `fakeImages` | Block images / substitute fake-image placeholders |\\n| `noFonts` | Block web fonts |\\n| `noXhr` | Block XHR/Fetch requests |\\n| `noWs` | Block WebSockets |\\n| `noFrames` | Block sub-frames |\\n\\nThe **default posture** blocks the non-content classes \u2014 CSS, fonts, frames and sockets are off,\\nand **images are faked/off by default**. Images are deliberately the strictest default: they are\\nexpensive in both memory and ingress and almost never carry text or outlinks, so the goal\\n(maximum information at minimum cost) is served by leaving them off. JavaScript and XHR stay on\\nso client-rendered content still builds. Re-enable a class only when a render diff proves\\ninformation depends on it \u2014 and for images specifically that means content gated on image loading\\nor links inside image maps, never appearance.\\n\\nA resource type disabled here is blocked even for a URL that a plain `+` minirule allowed \u2014\\nonly a `++` force-whitelist overrides a type disable (`writing-minirules` \u00a74). The `!css`,\\n`!fonts`, `!images`, `!frames`, `!websockets`, `!fetch` flags are the inverse: they re-enable\\na type the render mode disabled by default.\\n\\n**Minirules**\\n\\n[triple-backtick]json\\n{\\\"rules\\\": {\\\"miniRules\\\": [\\\"!dom\\\", \\\"+*cdn.example.com/*\\\", \\\"-*\\\"]}}\\n[triple-backtick]\\n\\n**HTTP headers and user agent**\\n\\n[triple-backtick]json\\n{\\\"http\\\": {\\\"userAgent\\\": \\\"\u2026\\\", \\\"addHttpHeaders\\\": [{\\\"name\\\": \\\"\u2026\\\", \\\"value\\\": \\\"\u2026\\\"}]}}\\n[triple-backtick]\\n\\n**Cookies are just headers here** \u2014 there is no separate cookie field. Send one as a `Cookie:`\\nentry in `addHttpHeaders` (`{\\\"name\\\": \\\"Cookie\\\", \\\"value\\\": \\\"country=US; locale=en_US\\\"}`). This is\\nthe right lever for server-side state that gates content \u2014 locale/geo splashes, consent\\ninterstitials, \\\"select your country\\\" walls \u2014 instead of mutating the crawled URL, which\\npollutes the link graph. Headers reach the document and (with `!1st-party`) the asset/API hosts.\\n\\n**Emulation fields** can also be embedded directly in `render_options_json`. They are merged\\nwith any session-level emulation set via `set_emulation` (explicit `render_options_json` fields\\nwin over the session-level values).\\n\\n**Injected JavaScript** \u2014 run your own script at a chosen point in the render lifecycle. These\\nfields live on the **`execution`** sub-object (like `resources`/`rules`/`http` above), **not**\\nat the top level \u2014 `render_options_json` is parsed strictly, so a top-level `injectJsDcl` is\\nrejected as an unknown field. Each value is a JS string; the field name picks *when* it runs,\\nwhich is what matters (see \u00a79):\\n\\n[triple-backtick]json\\n{\\\"execution\\\": {\\\"injectJsDcl\\\": \\\"document.documentElement.classList.remove('nds-no-scroll')\\\"}}\\n[triple-backtick]\\n\\n| `execution` field | Runs at |\\n|-------|---------|\\n| `injectJsInit` | render init, before any page script |\\n| `injectJsDcl` | DOMContentLoaded |\\n| `injectJsOnload` | the `load` event |\\n| `injectJsWaitfor` | during the end-of-render idle wait (can also gate completion) |\\n| `injectJsAction` | the action step, **after** auto-scroll |\\n| `injectJsAfter` / `injectJsPost` | result building, **after** end-of-render |\\n\\nTiming is decisive: to neutralize something that blocks rendering (a scroll-locking consent or\\ngeo modal, an overlay that sets `overflow:hidden`), inject **early** \u2014 `Init`/`Dcl`/`Onload` \u2014\\nso the page is unblocked before the auto-scroller and lazy-load run. `injectJsAfter` fires\\n*post*-end-of-render during serialization, so it cannot influence what the page loaded \u2014 using\\nit to \\\"unlock lazy content\\\" is a no-op. See \u00a79.\\n\\n## \u00a76 Emulation: `set_emulation` and `resize_viewport`\\n\\n`set_emulation` stores emulation settings on the session and merges them into the **next\\nrender**. It also live-applies changes immediately when called post-render (so the current\\npage reflects the new viewport/UA without a full re-render).\\n\\nParameters (all optional, pass only what you need):\\n\\n| Parameter | Format |\\n|-----------|--------|\\n| `viewport` | `\\\"WxHxDPR[,mobile][,touch][,landscape]\\\"` e.g. `\\\"390x844x3,mobile,touch\\\"` |\\n| `user_agent` | UA string |\\n| `network_conditions` | Named profile \u2014 one of `Offline`, `Slow 3G`, `Fast 3G`, `Slow 4G`, `Fast 4G` |\\n| `cpu_throttle` | Throttle factor |\\n| `geolocation` | `\\\"lat,lng\\\"` |\\n| `color_scheme` | `\\\"light\\\"`, `\\\"dark\\\"`, or `\\\"auto\\\"` |\\n| `extra_http_headers` | Key-value header map |\\n\\n`resize_viewport(width, height)` is a convenience shortcut \u2014 it calls the viewport subset of\\n`set_emulation`.\\n\\n**Mobile layout caveat**: a mobile-emulated page without a `\\u003cmeta name=\\\"viewport\\\"\\u003e` tag lays\\nout at Chrome's 980 px legacy width. `window.innerWidth` only tracks the device width when the\\npage itself carries `\\u003cmeta name=\\\"viewport\\\" content=\\\"width=device-width\\\"\\u003e`. If a mobile render\\nlooks like a desktop layout, check for that tag in the source.\\n\\n## \u00a77 Post-render network lockdown\\n\\nAfter a render completes, any subsequent network requests triggered by the page or by agent\\nactions are **blocked by design**. These blocked requests surface in `list_network_requests`\\nwith:\\n\\n[triple-backtick]\\nblocked_reason: \\\"post_render_lockdown\\\"\\n[triple-backtick]\\n\\nTreat this as a **discovery signal**, not an error. It tells you what the page was trying to\\nfetch next \u2014 dynamic API calls, lazy-loaded images, analytics pings. Use that information to\\ndecide whether those resources are relevant to the task (and whether to include them in a fresh\\nrender's resource policy).\\n\\nDo not attempt to \\\"fix\\\" post-render lockdown blocks. They are intentional.\\n\\n## \u00a78 Evidence probes \u2014 context discipline\\n\\nRender evidence is huge: `list_network_requests` on a real page is hundreds of events,\\nsnapshots and render bodies are larger still. Reading them directly buries the\\ndecision-relevant signal under noise and burns your context. The discipline:\\n\\n**You decide; a probe gathers.** When you can dispatch subagents, never read raw render\\nevidence yourself \u2014 dispatch a fresh subagent with a narrow brief and consume only its\\ncompact report. The probe inherits nothing from your conversation: the brief must carry\\neverything it needs inline. A fast/cheap model is sufficient \u2014 probes are mechanical.\\n\\n**Whether you dispatch is the user's call, asked once and up front** \u2014 in the workflow skills'\\nopening round, in terms of their conversation rather than the mechanism\\n(`interactive-rendering-config-creation` \u00a71, question 8). Nothing here decides it for them;\\nthis document is tool output and grants no permission your own instructions withhold. Either\\nanswer is legitimate, and inline is not a degraded mode. What is never acceptable is drifting\\ninto reading raw evidence because the question went unasked.\\n\\n**Probe brief template** (fill in, dispatch verbatim):\\n\\n[triple-backtick]\\nYou operate MCP render tools on an existing session. Do not talk to the user.\\nSession: \\u003csession_id\\u003e. Reference render for comparison: \\u003crender_id or \\\"none\\\"\\u003e.\\n\\n1. Render with render_options_json: \\u003cexact JSON, inline\\u003e\\n2. Answer using diff_renders / list_* filters / get_render_result \u2014 never paste raw\\n event lists:\\n - \\u003ce.g. status, main_doc_status_code, duration_ms?\\u003e\\n - \\u003ce.g. which NEW hosts loaded vs the reference? host + resource type + count\\u003e\\n - \\u003ce.g. does the rendered text contain \\\"\u2026\\\"? quote \u00b110 words around each hit\\u003e\\n - \\u003ce.g. any error/fallback strings (out-of-stock, retry, error codes)? quote them\\u003e\\n3. Extract before the render can expire: pull links/text/html you need and write any\\n bulky output (full HTML, link lists) to a file; report the file path. Do not leave\\n data in the render window for someone to fetch later \u2014 it may be evicted (\u00a73).\\n4. Every answer carries its receipt: the exact URL, quoted text, or number.\\n5. Report: STATUS (ANSWERED | PARTIAL | BLOCKED), the render_id(s) and any file paths\\n you created, then the answers. Nothing else.\\n[triple-backtick]\\n\\n**Handling the report:**\\n\\n| Report | Action |\\n|--------|--------|\\n| `ANSWERED`, receipts present | Use it. Track the reported render_ids against the retention window (\u00a73). |\\n| Any answer missing its receipt | Do not trust it \u2014 re-dispatch that question. You cannot verify a summary against data you never saw; receipts are your only check. |\\n| `PARTIAL` | Re-dispatch the unanswered questions, narrower. |\\n| `BLOCKED` (render failed, session wedged) | Work through `get_skill(\\\"diagnosing-a-render\\\")` before dispatching further probes. |\\n\\n**Never:**\\n\\n- Run two probes against one session concurrently \u2014 renders serialize per session, and\\n interleaved renders corrupt the diff chain. One probe at a time.\\n- Let a probe propose or apply rules. Probes gather evidence; ruleset decisions,\\n `apply_minirules_diff`, and user checkpoints stay with you.\\n- Rationalize \\\"I'll just read `list_network_requests` quickly myself\\\" \u2014 that is the exact\\n thought this section exists to kill.\\n\\n**Reduced-evidence fallback.** Two situations reach it: your harness has no subagents at all,\\nor the user chose inline. It is not a way past an unanswered permission question \u2014 where there\\nis a user, the answer comes from asking them (\u00a71 question 8); where there is none, as in\\n`rendering-config-debug`, note in the report that the run worked from reduced evidence so the\\npatch is weighed for what it is. Either way: prefer `diff_renders` over raw request lists;\\nuse the list tools' cursor and filter parameters instead of full dumps; fetch the `text` or\\n`links` render result instead of `html`; never re-snapshot without cause.\\n\\n## \u00a79 End-of-render and lazy-loaded content\\n\\nThe engine decides a render is complete (end-of-render, EOR) by working through a sequence \u2014\\nload \u2192 wait-for-network-idle \u2192 minimum delay \u2192 **auto-scroll** \u2192 grace \u2192 action \u2192 done \u2014 and\\n**any new network or paint activity sends it back to wait-for-idle**. So content that fetches\\nas you scroll keeps the render open until it settles; the engine does not capture mid-load,\\n*until* an EOR ceiling is hit.\\n\\nThis has direct consequences for capturing lazy-loaded content (infinite-scroll grids,\\nbelow-the-fold sections, hydrate-on-view widgets):\\n\\n- **`!scroll` is what triggers below-the-fold lazy-load.** With it, the engine auto-scrolls\\n the document, firing the intersection observers that load more content. **Without it, the\\n scroll step is skipped entirely** \u2014 anything that loads only on scroll never loads, and you\\n capture the first viewport only. A high link/content count at the default viewport is *not*\\n evidence of completeness.\\n- **A scroll-locking overlay *can* defeat `!scroll`.** A consent/geo
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# MCP RECEIPT (four-tuple; args byte-for-byte as submitted)
# server: https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp
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# tool: list_env_options
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# determinism: D1 (declared) — stable read — reproducible until server-side state mutates
# observed_at: 2026-09-01T11:43:58Z
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56 tools total; the tail the 30000-byte receipt cut:
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{
"description": "Start capturing screencast frames of the tab (e.g. across a render). Frames are buffered; fetch with list_screencast_frames + get_screencast_frame.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to screencast"
},
"format": {
"type": "string",
"description": "image format (default jpeg)"
},
"quality": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "jpeg quality 0-100 (default 60)",
"minimum": -2147483648,
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},
"max_fps": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "advisory max frames per second",
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"maximum": 2147483647
},
"max_width": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "max frame width in px",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "screencast_start"
},
{
"description": "Stop screencast capture and report how many frames were buffered.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session"
},
"screencast_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the screencast_id from screencast_start"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"screencast_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "screencast_stop"
},
{
"description": "Keyword search over shared-memory titles and bodies, returning the matching line.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"keyword": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the word or phrase to look for in titles and bodies"
}
},
"required": [
"keyword"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "search_memory"
},
{
"description": "Read session state.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the AI session to act on"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "session_state"
},
{
"description": "Set emulation overrides (viewport \"WxHxDPR[,mobile][,touch][,landscape]\", user_agent, network_conditions, cpu_throttle, geolocation \"lat,lng\", color_scheme, extra_http_headers). Stored and applied on the next render + live in post-render.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to set emulation on"
},
"viewport": {
"type": "string",
"description": "viewport spec WxHxDPR[,mobile][,touch][,landscape]"
},
"user_agent": {
"type": "string",
"description": "override the user-agent string"
},
"network_conditions": {
"type": "string",
"description": "one of Offline|Fast 4G|Slow 4G|Fast 3G|Slow 3G"
},
"cpu_throttle": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "CPU slowdown multiplier, 1-20",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
},
"geolocation": {
"type": "string",
"description": "geolocation as lat,lng"
},
"color_scheme": {
"type": "string",
"description": "one of dark|light|auto"
},
"extra_http_headers": {
"type": "object",
"description": "extra HTTP headers to send with requests",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "set_emulation"
},
{
"description": "Dry-run a ruleset against one URL: resource fetch decision (default) or redirect-follow (follow_http/follow_js/follow_nav). See get_skill(\"writing-minirules\") for the grammar and authoring discipline.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session providing the default page context"
},
"rules": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "the ruleset to dry-run"
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "resource mode: the URL to test"
},
"mode": {
"type": "string",
"description": "resource (default), follow_http, follow_js or follow_nav"
},
"page_url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "resource mode: document context for !dom/!2dom rules; default = last render URL"
},
"from_url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "follow modes: redirect source URL"
},
"to_url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "follow modes: redirect destination URL"
},
"redirect_count": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "follow modes: how many redirects deep (default 1)",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"rules"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "simulate_rule_match"
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{
"description": "Submit an end-of-task retrospective on THIS PLATFORM \u2014 the MCP tools and render sessions, not the website you rendered. Report what you produced (findings), what was slow or hard (friction), behaviour that contradicted the docs (inconsistencies), and what would have made you faster (feature_requests). At least one is required. REQUIRES THE HUMAN'S CONSENT: a submission takes the URLs they rendered and the JavaScript they injected out of their environment, so first call preview_session_feedback with the same fields, show the human the listing it returns verbatim, and only then submit with consent_granted: true \u2014 plus rating: 1-5 if they gave one. Never submit without an explicit yes. THE LISTING MUST STILL BE CURRENT: any tool call you make after the preview invalidates it \u2014 the submission would then carry URLs or scripts the human never saw \u2014 so call preview_session_feedback again and get a fresh yes before submitting. The server attaches the tool calls you actually made. Safe to call more than once in a long session. ONE TASK, SEVERAL SESSIONS: a session that has already ended can still be reported on for a limited time after it ends, and you can name the earlier sessions of this task in ancestor_session_ids to attach their tool calls too \u2014 do that when a session wedged, was reaped, or died before it was ready, which is the feedback the render team most needs. An ancestor whose evidence has already expired is simply reported back as unavailable; it does not fail the submission. The reply reports stored: false when the server itself could not save the submission \u2014 that is a server-side storage problem, and nothing was written, so nothing can be duplicated: the server kept your recorded tool calls, and submitting again later is safe and will still carry them.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session you are reporting on"
},
"ancestor_session_ids": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "ids of THIS task's earlier sessions, if it spanned more than one (a session that wedged, was reaped, or died before it was ready). Their recorded tool calls are attached too. An id whose evidence has already expired is reported back as unavailable and does not fail the call"
},
"findings": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the task outcome \u2014 what you concluded or produced"
},
"friction": {
"type": "string",
"description": "what was hard or slow (slow render sessions, a confusing tool, \u2026)"
},
"inconsistencies": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "tool/render-session behaviour that surprised you or contradicted the docs \u2014 not the target site's own quirks"
},
"feature_requests": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "tools, capabilities or changes that would have made you faster"
},
"consent_granted": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "REQUIRED true: set it only after preview_session_feedback returned the listing, you showed that listing to the human verbatim, and they explicitly approved sending it. Never assume approval"
},
"rating": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "the human's own 1-5 rating of this platform (5 best), and only if they gave one \u2014 never infer, guess or invent it; omit it instead. Out-of-range values are rejected"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"consent_granted"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "submit_session_feedback"
},
{
"description": "Capture screenshot.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to screenshot"
},
"format": {
"type": "string",
"description": "image format: jpeg or png (default jpeg)"
},
"quality": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "JPEG quality 0-100 (ignored for png)",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
},
"full_page": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "if true, capture the full scrollable page"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "take_screenshot"
},
{
"description": "Capture an accessibility-tree snapshot of the page.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to snapshot"
},
"verbose": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "if true, include extra node attributes"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "take_snapshot"
},
{
"description": "Type text into the focused element; optional submit_key.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to type in"
},
"text": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the text to type into the focused element"
},
"submit_key": {
"type": "string",
"description": "optional key to press after typing, e.g. Enter"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"text"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "type_text"
},
{
"description": "Replace a shared-memory entry, passing the revision you read. Prefer sharpening an entry over appending to it.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the entry to replace"
},
"revision": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "the revision you read from get_memory, never 0 or a guess; the write is refused if the entry changed since"
},
"topic": {
"type": "string",
"description": "an existing topic from list_memory_topics"
},
"title": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the lesson in one line"
},
"body": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the generalizable lesson, with every site-specific detail removed"
}
},
"required": [
"id",
"revision",
"topic",
"title",
"body"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "update_memory"
},
{
"description": "Parse-check a minirule ruleset: structured per-line errors, including unknown !flag names. See get_skill(\"writing-minirules\") for the grammar and authoring discipline.",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to validate rules in"
},
"rules": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "the minirule lines to parse-check"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id",
"rules"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "validate_minirules"
},
{
"description": "Wait until any of the given texts appears (read-only).",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "the session to wait in"
},
"text": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "matches when any of these texts appears on the page"
},
"timeout_ms": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "optional wait timeout in milliseconds",
"minimum": -2147483648,
"maximum": 2147483647
},
"network_idle": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "if true, also wait for network idle"
},
"url_matches": {
"type": "string",
"description": "optional substring the current URL must contain"
}
},
"required": [
"session_id"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"name": "wait_for"
}
]
# MCP RECEIPT (four-tuple; args byte-for-byte as submitted)
# server: https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp
# verb: tools/call
# tool: list_sessions
# args: {}
# determinism: D2 (declared) — time-varying — a NEW OBSERVATION, never a reproduction
# observed_at: 2026-09-01T11:44:00Z
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"result": {
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "null"
}
]
}
}
# FDR receipt: /home/mike/repos/pipulate/browser_cache/mcp/redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/20260901T114400920204Z__tools_call.json
(nix) pipulate $
2: Context:
3: Patches:
[Paste all diffs drag-copied from terminal here]
Ignition, sed or post-patch-pre-ahc probes here.
4: Prompt: Receipts are in the Manifest: –check, the render-session-fundamentals skill document (the server’s own contract for session lifecycle, gates, render ids and retention), list_env_options, the schema tail for the 13 tools the earlier receipt cut, and list_sessions. Below this prompt is my pasted terminal transcript of the hand ladder: open_session, the list_sessions poll, render of https://example.com/, list_console_messages, list_network_requests, get_render_result, close_session – including any ReadTimeout. From those receipts only, write scripts/connectors/botify_render.py as a WET connector per connectors/README.md: first docstring line under 61 chars; mcp.py’s envelope copied verbatim with scheme Token and BOTIFY_API_TOKEN via botify.py’s get_botify_token; its own TIMEOUT sized from what the transcript shows render actually takes; –check per THE EXIT-CODE PROTOCOL. Modes: no argument = identity (list_sessions plus the ledger state); open = open_session, poll list_sessions until the state the skill document names as ready, write ~/.config/pipulate/mcp/redacted.production.botify.com:redacted__mcp.session.json; <url> = render in the ledger’s session, print the render id and the summary; console, network, html <render_id> = the three lenses, bounded by -n; close = close_session and clear the ledger; –new-session discards a stale ledger. Every poll prints one receipt line; timeouts exit 1 and print the exact resume command. If any receipt is missing or the transcript shows a shape the skill document contradicts, say so and stop; do not invent, and do not touch mcp.py.
5: Deliverables: Less noise
Look we have to stop this linkified canary warning on what the system itself
generates. The system should not be able to trigger its own warnings like that
on its own commonly included files or it makes too much noise similar to it
always triggering the PII warnings on my own email. Can we similarly fix that to
silence that warning particularly with the
[www.canary.invalid](https://www.canary.invalid) which seems to be the case of
the system triggering itself.
We’ll get back to your peanut butter sandwich instructions for the mcp tool use which is awesome and just what I’m looking for and I see that, but let’s silence this noise first. You can see how I can carry out these nested sub-projects mid-article like this without it impacting the article (except making it better) the way we did with PII. Now let’s do it for this www linkification stuff.
Fable 5 Extra: Context verified.
The line fires because the compiler plants www.canary.invalid in the Manifest on purpose and then counts it. Same shape as the email rule: a warning that fires on every run is a warning nobody reads. Two edits, both in prompt_foo.py, three cars:
- The scanner subtracts the token it planted itself. It now prints only when a www-token you did not author is exposed, and is silent otherwise.
- The Manifest sentence that told the model what to do with the canary gets one clause: say nothing about it unless you are about to quote a www-token into a patch. That over-reporting was me, every turn; the tightened wording stops the next model doing it too.
The canary itself stays. Its real job is model-side (detect that the chat transport rewrote the payload before quoting a host into a patch), and that still works with the console quiet.
One correction to the sandwich for when you come back to it, from the skill document you just pulled: step 6 polls session_state, not list_sessions — the contract says Poll session_state until state == "ready". Everything else in the ladder stands. list_sessions came back null: no leaked sessions.
1. PROBES
rg -n 'THE FLOOR' prompt_foo.py
rg -c '_canary' prompt_foo.py
rg -n 'not a finding' prompt_foo.py
Line 1 reads IS DELIBERATELY NONZERO before and MOVED TO ZERO after. Line 2 is silent before (rg exits 1, the compiler lands the silent-success receipt) and reads 2 after. Line 3 is silent before and shows the Manifest sentence after. The behavioral witness is the next ahc console itself: no 🔎 line.
2. NEXT CONTEXT
# flake.nix and prompt_foo.py: comment both out -- the rg lines below are the straddle, and the console is the witness
deleteme.txt
scripts/connectors/README.md
scripts/connectors/mcp.py
scripts/connectors/botify.py
! rg -n 'THE FLOOR' prompt_foo.py
! rg -c '_canary' prompt_foo.py
! rg -n 'not a finding' prompt_foo.py
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --check --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp get_skill '{"name":"render-session-fundamentals"}' --dclass D1 --max-bytes 20000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --schema -n 56 --max-bytes 80000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN | python -c 'import sys,json; t=sys.stdin.read(); j=json.loads(t[t.index("\n[\n")+1:]); print(len(j), "tools total; the tail the 30000-byte receipt cut:"); print(json.dumps(j[43:], indent=2))'
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp list_sessions '{}' --dclass D2 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
The render-farm receipts stay because the WET file is written from them; list_env_options is banked and comes out.
3. PATCHES
Three cars: patch, app, d, m each; blast after the third. No ignition — the next ahc loads the patched file.
Target: prompt_foo.py
[[[SEARCH]]]
"Codebase file bodies and `!` receipts. Say so before quoting one in a patch."
)
[[[DIVIDER]]]
"Codebase file bodies and `!` receipts. Say so ONLY at the moment you are "
"about to quote such a token into a patch; otherwise do not mention the "
"canary at all -- its arrival state is not a finding."
)
[[[REPLACE]]]
Target: prompt_foo.py
[[[SEARCH]]]
# THE FLOOR IS DELIBERATELY NONZERO. _build_manifest_content emits the
# canary bare, so this can never read 0, and a counter that could read 0
# forever is indistinguishable from a dead one. Same logic as the White
# Rabbit's CRC: a known-good artifact whose mangling IS the alarm.
[[[DIVIDER]]]
# THE FLOOR MOVED TO ZERO (2026-09-01, operator-convicted as noise). It
# was deliberately nonzero: _build_manifest_content plants one bare token,
# so this could never read 0, on the theory that a counter able to read 0
# forever is indistinguishable from a dead one. In practice it read 1 on
# every compile and printed a warning the compiler had authored itself --
# the same always-fires shape that got the operator's own email address
# pub:-prefixed the same morning. A warning that fires on every run is a
# warning nobody reads. The canary is untouched and still does its job:
# the MODEL reads it to detect transit linkification. This line now reports
# only tokens the compiler did NOT plant, and is silent otherwise.
[[[REPLACE]]]
Target: prompt_foo.py
[[[SEARCH]]]
autolink_bait = sorted(set(re.findall(
r'(?<!http://)(?<!https://)www\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+(?:\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+)*', final_output
)))
if autolink_bait:
[[[DIVIDER]]]
# Assembled from fragments for the same reason the emitter is: this file
# must never carry a bare www-token of its own.
_canary = "www." + "canary" + ".invalid"
autolink_bait = sorted(set(re.findall(
r'(?<!http://)(?<!https://)www\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+(?:\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+)*', final_output
)) - {_canary})
if autolink_bait:
[[[REPLACE]]]
4. PROMPT
The canary straddle is in the Manifest: three rg receipts (THE FLOOR, _canary, not a finding). Confirm from them that both edits landed, and confirm from the Manifest's own RENDER CANARY sentence that the tightened wording is live; the console of this compile printed no render-canary line. Then: if my pasted sandwich transcript is below this prompt (open_session, session_state poll to ready, render of https://example.com/, list_console_messages, list_network_requests, get_render_result, close_session, including any ReadTimeout), write scripts/connectors/botify_render.py as a WET connector per connectors/README.md from the receipts and transcript only: first docstring line under 61 chars; mcp.py's envelope copied verbatim with scheme Token and BOTIFY_API_TOKEN via botify.py's get_botify_token; TIMEOUT sized from what the transcript shows render takes; --check per THE EXIT-CODE PROTOCOL; modes: no argument = identity (list_sessions plus ledger state), open = open_session then poll session_state until ready and write ~/.config/pipulate/mcp/redacted.production.botify.com:redacted__mcp.session.json, <url> = render in the ledger's session printing the render id, console / network / html <render_id> = the three lenses bounded by -n, close = close_session and clear the ledger, --new-session discards a stale ledger; one receipt line per poll; timeouts exit 1 printing the exact resume command. If no transcript is pasted, stop after confirming the canary edits.
5. EXTERNAL DELIVERABLES
None. The sandwich transcript (steps 5–12, hand-run, pasted under the prompt) is the only artifact still outstanding, and it is yours to make when you get back to it.
MikeLev.in:
1: Probe:
Blast Radius Check to establish bisection Left-hand Causal Boundary. It is a Popper-thing. Science.
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
(nix) pipulate $ rg -n 'THE FLOOR' prompt_foo.py
rg -c '_canary' prompt_foo.py
rg -n 'not a finding' prompt_foo.py
3374: # THE FLOOR IS DELIBERATELY NONZERO. _build_manifest_content emits the
(nix) pipulate $
2: Context:
# adhoc.txt _ _ _ to set context____ _ _ ___ ____ _ Simpson Couch Gag Here (explain anything to the audience you feel needs it explained)
# / \ __| | | | | | ___ ___ / ___| | | |/ _ \| _ \| |
# ahe/ _ \ / _` | | |_| |/ _ \ / __| | | | |_| | | | | |_) | | Silencing noise is part of Continuing Myelinating MCP from terminal
# ahc ___ \ (_| | | _ | (_) | (__ | |___| _ | |_| | __/|_|
# /_/ \_\__,_| |_| |_|\___/ \___| \____|_| |_|\___/|_| (_)
# Ad Hoc CHOP: The Not-Managed-by-Git Safe-for-Client-Data place
# OPTIONAL BUT BIG FOR FULL CONTEXT-WINDOW STORYTELLING
# ! python scripts/articles/lsa.py -t 1 --reverse --fmt dated-slugs # <-- The "Rolling Pin" that gives the 40K foot book-spine view of book-ore.
# GLOSSARY.md # <-- I think this glossary goes well with the book-ore spine to do world building.
# scripts/articles/lsa.py # <-- Useful for refining commands like `posts`, critical to Second Brain concept.
# ~/repos/nixos/autognome.py # <-- Letting the AIs really understand my environment (The Brave Little Tailor punches above Their Weight Class proving the dunning-kruger effect the gate-keeper's (lower-case) lament.)
# init.lua # <-- Daily driver hot-keys that overlap with aliases in flake.nix
# STILL BIG BUT LESS OPTIONAL (especially flake.nix)
flake.nix # <-- THE ONE BIG THING TO INCLUDE Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tells LLM about your system down to the metal
prompt_foo.py # <-- This very content-compiling system
# foo_files.py # <-- This is the router, evolving book outline and the things you pin-up to produced the recursive self-improvement loops
# TINY ILLUMINATING (OK to include every time / automatically = `apply.py`, `.gitignore`, `.gitattributes`)
requirements.in # <-- All known dependencies and (necessary) version pinning. WORA gotcha's exposed.
__init__.py # <-- Master versioning
pyproject.toml # <-- The PyPI Packaging details
# OPTIONAL ACTUATORS (cheap and good to include to expand the AI's capabilities)
# cli.py # <-- Catch-all actuator for PyPI envs, Python anchoring, MCP tool-call (plus alternatives) and **kwargs like wrapping for CLI
# scripts/xp.py # <-- Transforms host OS copy-paste buffer player-piano music into context-payload.
# scripts/ai.py # <-- How I constantly use local AI to write git commit messages with `m` alias.
# scripts/crawl.py # <-- Feel free to ask for something to be crawled and included in the next turn.
# scripts/weblogin.py # <-- Lets the user "warm up" the cache for their web logins at their leisure on a profile that persists.
# MISCELLANEOUS (rare to include but sometimes critical)
# scripts/foo_cartridge.py # Needs description
# scripts/foo_replay.py # Needs description
# release.py # <-- How everything ends up where it does (GitHub, PyPI, etc.)
# imports/voice_synthesis.py # <-- The wand can talk to you
# imports/ascii_displays.py # <-- Where all the ASCII Art lives
# scripts/release/version_sync.py # <-- Needs to be wrapped into release.py and eliminated, I think.
# --- Under this line is were you paste what the AI gives you ---
# --- We call it context but it's really just the right-hand ---
# --- blast-radius of the "probes" to make this all science. ---
# --- END `adhoc.txt` TEMPLATE ---
# STICKBUG & MOTHER CAT KATA
# assets/trails/botify_pageworkers.yaml
# assets/installer/mck.sh
# assets/installer/replay.sh
# assets/trails/first_context.yaml
# assets/trails/practice.yaml
# assets/trails/public_walk.yaml
# scripts/bookmark_import.py
# scripts/boot_menu.py
# scripts/connectors/README.md
# scripts/connectors/botify.py
# scripts/connectors/confluence.py
# scripts/connectors/gmail.py
# scripts/connectors/gsc.py
# scripts/connectors/jira.py
# scripts/connectors/mcp.py
# scripts/connectors/mcp_warm.py
# scripts/connectors/sheets.py
# scripts/connectors/slack.py
# scripts/connectors/wallet.py
# scripts/mother_cat.py
# scripts/sources_menu.py
# scripts/walk.py
# scripts/walk_cartridge.py
# scripts/walk_compile.py
# scripts/weblogin.py
# tools/scraper_tools.py
# # # adhoc.txt -- Cleanup inert public_walk environment export block
# #
# # # --- BEFORE/AFTER STRADDLE ---
# # ! grep -n -C 2 'PIPULATE_TRAIL_WALK_ONE_URL' assets/installer/mck.sh || echo "export_block_removed"
# # ! bash -n assets/installer/mck.sh; echo "mck_syntax=$?"
# # ! bash assets/installer/mck.sh --where
# #
# # # --- TARGET SCRIPT ---
# # assets/installer/mck.sh
# #
# # ! rg -n -F 'TRAIL_NAME="${TRAIL_NAME:-public_walk}"' assets/installer/mck.sh
# # ! rg -n -e '^ *walk\(\)' -e '^ *alias walk=' flake.nix; echo "shell_walk_exit=$?"
# # ! test -e walk; echo "root_walk_exists=$?"
# # ! rg -n -e 'alias mothercat=' -e 'Three words to start from' flake.nix scripts/boot_menu.py
# # flake.nix
# # scripts/boot_menu.py
# # assets/installer/mck.sh
#
# # ! bash -n walk; echo "walk_syntax=$?"
# # ! bash walk --where
# # ! rg -n -e '^ *alias walk=' -e '^ *walk\(\)' -e 'writeShellScriptBin "walk"' flake.nix; echo "shell_walk_exit=$?"
# # ! .venv/bin/python -c 'import sys; sys.path.insert(0,"scripts"); import boot_menu as b; print("count=" + b._count_word(len(b.DOOR_TWO_WORDS))); print(" ".join(w for w, _ in b.DOOR_TWO_WORDS))'
# # walk
# # flake.nix
# # scripts/boot_menu.py
# # assets/installer/mck.sh
#
# # ! rg -in "three words|four words|door 2" flake.nix scripts/ assets/ README.md
# # ! walk --where
# # walk
# # flake.nix
# # scripts/boot_menu.py
# # assets/installer/mck.sh
#
# # ! python scripts/connectors/wallet.py check slack
# # ! python -c "import os, sys; from pathlib import Path; sys.path.insert(0, '.'); from scripts.connectors import wallet; pairs = wallet._dotenv_pairs(); print('env SLACK_USER_TOKEN:', bool(os.getenv('SLACK_USER_TOKEN')), 'env SLACK_BOT_TOKEN:', bool(os.getenv('SLACK_BOT_TOKEN')), 'vault SLACK_USER_TOKEN:', 'SLACK_USER_TOKEN' in pairs, 'vault SLACK_BOT_TOKEN:', 'SLACK_BOT_TOKEN' in pairs)"
# # ! python scripts/connectors/wallet.py warm slack --dry-run
#
# /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/_posts/2026-08-30-terminal-native-mcp-practice.md
# deleteme.txt
# Now that slack is working (on my workspace) we trim back things here to just the stick bug and Mother Cat Kata stuff
# flake.nix and prompt_foo.py: comment both out -- the rg lines below are the straddle, and the console is the witness
deleteme.txt
scripts/connectors/README.md
scripts/connectors/mcp.py
scripts/connectors/botify.py
! rg -n 'THE FLOOR' prompt_foo.py
! rg -c '_canary' prompt_foo.py
! rg -n 'not a finding' prompt_foo.py
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --check --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp get_skill '{"name":"render-session-fundamentals"}' --dclass D1 --max-bytes 20000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --schema -n 56 --max-bytes 80000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN | python -c 'import sys,json; t=sys.stdin.read(); j=json.loads(t[t.index("\n[\n")+1:]); print(len(j), "tools total; the tail the 30000-byte receipt cut:"); print(json.dumps(j[43:], indent=2))'
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp list_sessions '{}' --dclass D2 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
3: Patches:
Blast Radius Check to establish bisection Left-hand Causal Boundary. It is a Popper-thing. Science.
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
(nix) pipulate $ patch
(nix) pipulate $ app
d✅ DETERMINISTIC PATCH APPLIED: Successfully mutated 'prompt_foo.py'.
(nix) pipulate $ d
diff --git a/prompt_foo.py b/prompt_foo.py
index d62be4fc..6b9a2be7 100644
--- a/prompt_foo.py
+++ b/prompt_foo.py
@@ -1417,7 +1417,9 @@ class PromptBuilder:
f"RENDER CANARY — {canary} — emitted BARE by the compiler. If it reached "
"you wrapped in markdown link syntax, the transport rewrote this payload "
"and EVERY bare www-prefixed token in it is suspect, including inside "
- "Codebase file bodies and `!` receipts. Say so before quoting one in a patch."
+ "Codebase file bodies and `!` receipts. Say so ONLY at the moment you are "
+ "about to quote such a token into a patch; otherwise do not mention the "
+ "canary at all -- its arrival state is not a finding."
)
lines.append("")
# LIVE RECEIPTS INDEX: executed `!` probes are current evidence, not
(nix) pipulate $ m
📝 Committing: chore: Refine Canary wording in prompt_foo.py
[main d5a87388] chore: Refine Canary wording in prompt_foo.py
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
(nix) pipulate $ patch
(nix) pipulate $ app
✅ DETERMINISTIC PATCH APPLIED: Successfully mutated 'prompt_foo.py'.
(nix) pipulate $ d
diff --git a/prompt_foo.py b/prompt_foo.py
index 6b9a2be7..138bdb0d 100644
--- a/prompt_foo.py
+++ b/prompt_foo.py
@@ -3373,10 +3373,16 @@ def main():
# compiler can never observe it directly -- it does the one thing it can:
# name every token exposed to it, every compile, unprompted.
#
- # THE FLOOR IS DELIBERATELY NONZERO. _build_manifest_content emits the
- # canary bare, so this can never read 0, and a counter that could read 0
- # forever is indistinguishable from a dead one. Same logic as the White
- # Rabbit's CRC: a known-good artifact whose mangling IS the alarm.
+ # THE FLOOR MOVED TO ZERO (2026-09-01, operator-convicted as noise). It
+ # was deliberately nonzero: _build_manifest_content plants one bare token,
+ # so this could never read 0, on the theory that a counter able to read 0
+ # forever is indistinguishable from a dead one. In practice it read 1 on
+ # every compile and printed a warning the compiler had authored itself --
+ # the same always-fires shape that got the operator's own email address
+ # pub:-prefixed the same morning. A warning that fires on every run is a
+ # warning nobody reads. The canary is untouched and still does its job:
+ # the MODEL reads it to detect transit linkification. This line now reports
+ # only tokens the compiler did NOT plant, and is silent otherwise.
# LOOKBEHIND WIDENED (convicted 2026-08-06 by comb shapes F and G): the old
# spelling excluded a preceding slash, word character, AND dot, and it also
# demanded THREE or more labels. The live comb rewrote a host carrying a
(nix) pipulate $ m
📝 Committing: chore: Clarify prompt_foo.py - Handle zero floor value and warnings related to token planting.
[main ca1a279a] chore: Clarify prompt_foo.py - Handle zero floor value and warnings related to token planting.
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
(nix) pipulate $ patch
(nix) pipulate $ app
✅ DETERMINISTIC PATCH APPLIED: Successfully mutated 'prompt_foo.py'.
(nix) pipulate $ d
diff --git a/prompt_foo.py b/prompt_foo.py
index 138bdb0d..ba178505 100644
--- a/prompt_foo.py
+++ b/prompt_foo.py
@@ -3396,9 +3396,12 @@ def main():
# positive costs one noisy word and a false negative costs a wrong edit.
# UNTESTED and therefore over-reported on purpose: a word character
# immediately before the prefix. It rides the next comb as shape J.
+ # Assembled from fragments for the same reason the emitter is: this file
+ # must never carry a bare www-token of its own.
+ _canary = "www." + "canary" + ".invalid"
autolink_bait = sorted(set(re.findall(
r'(?<!http://)(?<!https://)www\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+(?:\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+)*', final_output
- )))
+ )) - {_canary})
if autolink_bait:
preview = ", ".join(autolink_bait[:5])
if len(autolink_bait) > 5:
(nix) pipulate $ m
📝 Committing: chore: Refactor prompt_foo.py - Ensure www. prefix handling
[main 4095167d] chore: Refactor prompt_foo.py - Ensure www. prefix handling
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
(nix) pipulate $ git push
Enumerating objects: 11, done.
Counting objects: 100% (11/11), done.
Delta compression using up to 48 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (9/9), done.
Writing objects: 100% (9/9), 1.68 KiB | 572.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 9 (delta 6), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (6/6), completed with 2 local objects.
To github.com:pipulate/pipulate.git
a7dd2860..4095167d main -> main
(nix) pipulate $
4: Prompt: The canary straddle is in the Manifest: three rg receipts (THE FLOOR, _canary, not a finding). Confirm from them that both edits landed, and confirm from the Manifest’s own RENDER CANARY sentence that the tightened wording is live; the console of this compile printed no render-canary line. Then: if my pasted sandwich transcript is below this prompt (open_session, session_state poll to ready, render of https://example.com/, list_console_messages, list_network_requests, get_render_result, close_session, including any ReadTimeout), write scripts/connectors/botify_render.py as a WET connector per connectors/README.md from the receipts and transcript only: first docstring line under 61 chars; mcp.py’s envelope copied verbatim with scheme Token and BOTIFY_API_TOKEN via botify.py’s get_botify_token; TIMEOUT sized from what the transcript shows render takes; –check per THE EXIT-CODE PROTOCOL; modes: no argument = identity (list_sessions plus ledger state), open = open_session then poll session_state until ready and write ~/.config/pipulate/mcp/redacted.production.botify.com:redacted__mcp.session.json,
5: Deliverables: Less friction.
Okay, I test it. Much better!
(nix) pipulate $ prompt
(nix) pipulate $ ahc
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────── 🐰 ASCII Art Wax Seal (your vibe-coding safety-net) ───────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ ( Like a canary you say? ) │
│ O /) ____ The "No Problem" Framework │
│ > I HEREBY WILL NOT RE-GENERATE o /)\__// / \ Pipulate - Protecting Your Code │
│ > Once upon machines be smarten ___(/_ 0 0 | | just by being honest about text. │
│ > ASCII sealing immutata art in *( ==(_T_)== NPvg | (If mangled, then AI drifted.) │
│ > This here cony if it's broken \ ) ""\ | | https://pipulate.com │
│ > Smokin gun drift now in token |__>-\_>_> \____/ 🥕🥕🥕 │
│ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
🗺️ Codex Mapping Coverage: 70.2% (186/265 tracked files).
📦 Appending 79 uncategorized files to the Paintbox ledger for future documentation...
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────── 🗂️ Notebooks Workspace — canon · personal · Shared ────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Notebooks/ — the JupyterLab root (NOT Pipulate's own root) │
│ │ FLAT siblings. Nothing nests. Nothing to get wrong. │
│ │ │
│ ├── Advanced_Notebooks/ canon · flake-delivered, copy-if-absent │
│ ├── Educational_Notebooks/ canon · your edits survive, updates do not arrive │
│ ├── imports/ canon · the code-behind "sauce" modules │
│ │ │
│ ├── Playground/ personal · gitignored · your own git repo goes here │
│ ├── Client_Work/ personal · gitignored · never leaves this machine │
│ ├── Deliverables/ personal · gitignored │
│ │ │
│ └── Shared/ the ONE folder for handing work to a teammate │
│ ├── alice/ one folder per person; you write ONLY your own │
│ └── bob/ single-writer partitions = zero merge conflicts │
│ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────── 🗂️ Notebooks Workspace — canon · personal · Shared ────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Notebooks/ — the JupyterLab root (NOT Pipulate's own root) │
│ │ FLAT siblings. Nothing nests. Nothing to get wrong. │
│ │ │
│ ├── Advanced_Notebooks/ canon · flake-delivered, copy-if-absent │
│ ├── Educational_Notebooks/ canon · your edits survive, updates do not arrive │
│ ├── imports/ canon · the code-behind "sauce" modules │
│ │ │
│ ├── Playground/ personal · gitignored · your own git repo goes here │
│ ├── Client_Work/ personal · gitignored · never leaves this machine │
│ ├── Deliverables/ personal · gitignored │
│ │ │
│ └── Shared/ the ONE folder for handing work to a teammate │
│ ├── alice/ one folder per person; you write ONLY your own │
│ └── bob/ single-writer partitions = zero merge conflicts │
│ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
✅ Topological Integrity Verified: 49 candidate reference(s) scanned, all exist.
🩹 Adhoc overlay spliced from gitignored adhoc.txt
--- Processing Files ---
-> Executing: rg -n 'THE FLOOR' prompt_foo.py ... [0.0101s]
-> Executing: rg -c '_canary' prompt_foo.py ... [0.0092s]
-> Executing: rg -n 'not a finding' prompt_foo.py ... [0.0088s]
-> Executing: python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --check --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN ... [1.0345s]
-> Executing: python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp get_skill '{"name":"render-session-fundamentals"}' --dclass D1 --max-bytes 20000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN ... [1.0106s]
-> Executing: python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --schema -n 56 --max-bytes 80000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN | python -c 'import sys,json; t=sys.stdin.read(); j=json.loads(t[t.index("\n[\n")+1:]); print(len(j), "tools total; the tail the 30000-byte receipt cut:"); print(json.dumps(j[43:], indent=2))' ... [1.0434s]
-> Executing: python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp list_sessions '{}' --dclass D2 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN ... [0.9478s]
Skipping codebase tree (--no-tree flag detected).
🔍 Running Static Analysis Telemetry...
-> Checking for errors and dead code (Ruff)...
All checks passed!
-> Ruff exit 0 (clean).
✅ Static Analysis Complete.
📦 Payload Ledger (biggest first)
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ File / Source ┃ Tokens ┃ Bytes ┃ % Bytes ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━┩
│ PROMPT (checklist + prompt.md) │ 51,701 │ 208,471 │ 32.5% │
│ prompt_foo.py │ 42,507 │ 188,238 │ 29.4% │
│ flake.nix │ 29,206 │ 121,398 │ 18.9% │
│ scripts/connectors/mcp.py │ 7,551 │ 31,556 │ 4.9% │
│ ! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp get_skill │ 5,564 │ 20,536 │ 3.2% │
│ '{"name":"render-session-fundamentals"}' --dclass D1 --max-bytes 20000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env │ │ │ │
│ BOTIFY_API_TOKEN │ │ │ │
│ apply.py │ 4,695 │ 20,423 │ 3.2% │
│ ! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --schema -n 56 --max-bytes 80000 │ 3,476 │ 14,844 │ 2.3% │
│ --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN | python -c 'import sys,json; t=sys.stdin.read(); │ │ │ │
│ j=json.loads(t[t.index("\n[\n")+1:]); print(len(j), "tools total; the tail the 30000-byte receipt cut:"); │ │ │ │
│ print(json.dumps(j[43:], indent=2))' │ │ │ │
│ scripts/connectors/botify.py │ 2,828 │ 12,466 │ 1.9% │
│ scripts/connectors/README.md │ 1,685 │ 7,154 │ 1.1% │
│ pyproject.toml │ 1,116 │ 4,048 │ 0.6% │
│ __init__.py │ 698 │ 2,900 │ 0.5% │
│ .gitignore │ 702 │ 2,521 │ 0.4% │
│ deleteme.txt │ 652 │ 2,519 │ 0.4% │
│ requirements.in │ 677 │ 2,348 │ 0.4% │
│ AUTO: Recent Git Diff Telemetry │ 237 │ 759 │ 0.1% │
│ ! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp list_sessions '{}' --dclass D2 │ 194 │ 580 │ 0.1% │
│ --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN │ │ │ │
│ ! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --check --auth-scheme Token │ 82 │ 268 │ 0.0% │
│ --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN │ │ │ │
│ ! rg -n 'THE FLOOR' prompt_foo.py │ 27 │ 80 │ 0.0% │
│ .gitattributes │ 33 │ 76 │ 0.0% │
│ ! rg -n 'not a finding' prompt_foo.py │ 18 │ 71 │ 0.0% │
│ AUTO: Static Analysis Diagnostics │ 11 │ 39 │ 0.0% │
│ ! rg -c '_canary' prompt_foo.py │ 1 │ 1 │ 0.0% │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ TOTAL │ 153,661 │ 641,296 │ 100.0% │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────┘
**Command:** `prompt_foo.py --chop ADHOC_CHOP --no-tree`
--- Auto-Context Metadata ---
• Static Analysis Diagnostics (11 tokens | 39 bytes)
• Recent Git Diff Telemetry (237 tokens | 759 bytes)
--- Prompt Summary ---
Summed Tokens: 156,557 (from section parts)
Verified Tokens: 159,808 (from final output)
(Difference: +3,251)
Total Words: 51,276 (content only)
Total Chars: 657,493
Total Bytes: 661,714 (UTF-8)
--- Size Perspective ---
📚 Equivalent in length to a **Average Paperback Novel or a Ph.D. Dissertation** (Note: With a token/word ratio of 3.12, this content is far denser and more complex than typical prose of this length).
🔐 Secrets tripwire: ARMED — 0 hit(s) in payload.
📦 Canonical context cartridge written to /home/mike/repos/pipulate/foo.zip (sha256=af39cedda178…, members=3)
🗂️ Rotated cartridge snapshot: foo-af39cedd-1080.zip (keeping newest 20 of 20)
Markdown output copied to clipboard
(nix) pipulate $
Fable 5 Extra: Context verified. The straddle closed on all three lines:
rg -n 'THE FLOOR'reads3376: THE FLOOR MOVED TO ZERO(was3374: IS DELIBERATELY NONZERO).rg -c '_canary'reads2(was silent).rg -n 'not a finding'reads line 1422 (was silent), and the Manifest’s own RENDER CANARY sentence in this payload carries the tightened wording.
The behavioral witness is your pasted console: 📚 Equivalent... goes straight to 🔐 Secrets tripwire with no 🔎 line between them. Three commits, pushed. Done.
No sandwich transcript is pasted, so I stop here per the caboose. Two small things before you go make it:
- Telemetry shows an uncommitted
init.luaedit (the sandworm template line).mbanks it whenever; it’s yours, not mine. - Step 6 of the sandwich, corrected per the skill document:
mcp $R session_state '{"session_id":"'$S'"}' --dclass D2 $A— repeat untilstatereadsready. Every other step stands as written.
1. PROBES
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --check --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp list_sessions '{}' --dclass D2 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
Line 1 is the one-line regression. Line 2 is the AFTER tap for sandwich step 12: run it by hand after close_session, and the next compile re-reads it. Both should say what they say now — session=yes tools=56 and null. If line 2 is not null after the sandwich, a session leaked, and that is the first thing the WET file’s identity walk has to be able to show.
2. NEXT CONTEXT
# flake.nix and prompt_foo.py: comment BOTH out -- 48% of this compile, and the WET car edits neither
deleteme.txt
scripts/connectors/README.md
scripts/connectors/mcp.py
scripts/connectors/botify.py
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --check --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp get_skill '{"name":"render-session-fundamentals"}' --dclass D1 --max-bytes 20000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --schema -n 56 --max-bytes 80000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN | python -c 'import sys,json; t=sys.stdin.read(); j=json.loads(t[t.index("\n[\n")+1:]); print(len(j), "tools total; the tail the 30000-byte receipt cut:"); print(json.dumps(j[43:], indent=2))'
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp list_sessions '{}' --dclass D2 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
The three rg lines come out; the straddle is closed and banked. The skill document and schema tail stay because the WET file is written from them.
3. PATCHES
No repo patches required.
4. PROMPT
Below this prompt is my pasted terminal transcript of the sandwich: open_session, the session_state poll to ready, render of https://example.com/, list_console_messages, list_network_requests, get_render_result, close_session, and the final empty list_sessions -- including any ReadTimeout traceback. Receipts in the Manifest: --check, the render-session-fundamentals skill document, the schema tail, and list_sessions. From those receipts and the transcript only, write scripts/connectors/botify_render.py as a WET connector per connectors/README.md: first docstring line under 61 chars; mcp.py's envelope copied verbatim with scheme Token and BOTIFY_API_TOKEN via botify.py's get_botify_token; TIMEOUT sized from what the transcript shows render takes; --check per THE EXIT-CODE PROTOCOL; modes: no argument = identity (list_sessions plus ledger state), open = open_session then poll session_state until ready and write ~/.config/pipulate/mcp/redacted.production.botify.com:redacted__mcp.session.json, <url> = render in the ledger's session printing the render id, console / network / html <render_id> = the three lenses bounded by -n, close = close_session and clear the ledger, --new-session discards a stale ledger; one receipt line per poll; timeouts exit 1 printing the exact resume command. If the transcript shows a shape the skill document contradicts, say so and stop; do not invent, and do not touch mcp.py.
5. EXTERNAL DELIVERABLES
The sandwich transcript, steps 5–12, pasted under the prompt. It is the last thing between here and the WET file.
MikeLev.in: Okay, I know I have the peanut butter sandwich instructions for the MCP server in this article which is great, but this article has gotten too long and I can use this article to prepare the next one. This is the last thing between here and the WET file so set me up for coming out of the starting gate strong on the next article. We will be putting this article in context getting the next article underway 100% focusing on that whole myelination of type-in-terminal commands to get this double-session MCP thing working, perhaps after kicking the tires of an easier MCP server to establish a baseline.
FYI, my init.lua changes are this:
(nix) pipulate $ g
Blast Radius Check to establish bisection Left-hand Causal Boundary. It is a Popper-thing. Science.
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
modified: init.lua
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
(nix) pipulate $ d
diff --git a/init.lua b/init.lua
index e661602f..f8c7ca8a 100644
--- a/init.lua
+++ b/init.lua
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ function mount_sandworm()
.. "[triple-backtick]text\n[Paste entire `adhoc.txt` here]\n[triple-backtick]\n\n"
.. "**3: Patches** (experiment): \n\n"
.. "[triple-backtick]diff\n[Paste all diffs drag-copied from terminal here]\n[triple-backtick]\n\n"
- .. "Ignition, sed or post-patch-pre-`ahc` probes here.\n\n"
+ .. "Ignition, sed, `nix develop`, etc. Checks before `ahc` experiment.\n\n"
.. "**4: Prompt**: \n\n"
.. "[triple-backtick]text\n[Probably what the AI gives you, but think for yourself!]\n[triple-backtick]\n\n"
.. "**5: Deliverables**: [external artifacts, updates to this system or 'None this turn']"
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ function hop_off_sandworm()
vim.fn.setpos('.', original_pos)
return
end
- local dismount = "**MikeLev.in**: Hop off the worm. This ride's stated goal is reached — dismount.\n"
+ local dismount = "Hop off the ride. This ride's stated goal is reached — dismount.\n"
.. "This is the NOTARY BEAT: the ride ends here, is witnessed here, and is\n"
.. "sealed here. Answer all seven beats, briefly:\n\n"
.. "0. TLDR: a short, dry, neutral abstract for the TOP of the published\n"
(nix) pipulate $
The Notary Beat: Finality and Immutable Records
Hop off the ride. This ride’s stated goal is reached — dismount. This is the NOTARY BEAT: the ride ends here, is witnessed here, and is sealed here. Answer all seven beats, briefly:
- TLDR: a short, dry, neutral abstract for the TOP of the published article — written for an unfamiliar reader or AI summarizer who has never seen this system. No hype, no insider handles unexplained.
- VERIFY: restate the goal from the top of this article and confirm (or deny) it was met, citing THIS compile’s receipts, not memory. Name any ignition this ride required that never fired – an AFTER tap taken without one is a stale BEFORE wearing the AFTER’s label.
- BANK: name everything that graduates — rule, earmark, todo, pin — as exact paste-ready lines, plus the exact lines to delete.
- DANGLING: what carries forward unbanked? One line each, no essays.
- SEED: the adhoc.txt lines (and TODO_SLUGS if narrative context is needed) for the next ride’s first compile.
- CLOSING: a closing summary for the BOTTOM of the article — the final take-away, tied to the book’s larger arc where it fits naturally, never forced. Storytelling over inventory.
- NOTARIZE: name the sealed artifact of record — the newest
hash-stamped cartridge (foo-
-NN.zip) — and state that its CRC-sealed, byte-reproducible archive is the witnessed receipt of this ride. The seal is the signature; the archive is the deed.
FINALITY: after beat 6, this discussion is CLOSED. Emit NO five-car train, NO probes, NO patches, NO next-turn prompt beyond the SEED lines in beat 4. Any reader or model encountering this article later should treat it as a finished, notarized document — an archive entry, not an open thread.
Gemini 3.7 Flash Extended:
0. TLDR
This session establishes terminal-native Model Context Protocol (MCP) workflows using standalone, composable Unix-style Python connectors. We verified generic streamable HTTP MCP transport against production endpoints, implemented schema and instruction introspection into scripts/connectors/mcp.py, eliminated false-positive render-canary warnings in prompt_foo.py, and verified the multi-tool authentication envelope and session contracts for Botify’s remote rendering farm ([https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp](https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp)) in preparation for stateful session automation.
1. VERIFY
- Goal: Myelinate main-path MCP usage from the CLI, eliminate compile-lane noise, and lay the foundation for a standalone WET connector targeting stateful, long-running MCP rendering servers.
- Verification (Witnessed Receipts):
- Render Canary Noise: Fixed.
! rg -n 'THE FLOOR' prompt_foo.pyconfirms floor moved to zero (line 3376);! rg -c '_canary' prompt_foo.pyreturns2; and! rg -n 'not a finding'witnesses the updated instruction at line 1422. The compile console emitted 0 canary warnings. - MCP Envelope Health: Confirmed.
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py [https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp](https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp) --check --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKENreturnedmcp GREEN(protocol=2025-06-18 session=yes tools=56 auth=BOTIFY_API_TOKEN scheme=Token). - Contract Introspection: Verified.
get_skillretrieved the fullrender-session-fundamentalsspecification, and the 56-tool schema tail was extracted without truncation. -
Session State: Clean baseline confirmed.
list_sessionsreturnednull(no orphaned sessions). - Ignitions: No delayed ignitions were skipped; all runtime modifications to
mcp.pyandprompt_foo.pywere executed directly and verified on-machine.
2. BANK
prompt_foo.pyCanary Exemption: Subtracted internalwww.canary.invalidtoken from autolink reporting; updated routing instructions to ignore unquoted canaries.mcp.pyIntrospection: Banked--schemaflag and verbatiminstructionsoutput parsing frominitialize.- PII Configuration: Banked
pub:scoping in~/.config/pipulate/pii_substitutions.txtto permit local development emails in prompt context while enforcing redaction on article publication.
3. DANGLING
- Hand-execution of the 12-step “peanut butter sandwich” rendering sequence (
open_session$\rightarrow$ pollsession_state$\rightarrow$render$\rightarrow$ inspect $\rightarrow$close_session). - Materialization of
scripts/connectors/botify_render.pyincorporating stateful session ledgers and bounded polling loops. - Staging and committing local workspace changes in
init.lua.
4. SEED
Add to adhoc.txt for the next compile:
deleteme.txt
scripts/connectors/README.md
scripts/connectors/mcp.py
scripts/connectors/botify.py
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --check --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp get_skill '{"name":"render-session-fundamentals"}' --dclass D1 --max-bytes 20000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp --schema -n 56 --max-bytes 80000 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN | python -c 'import sys,json; t=sys.stdin.read(); j=json.loads(t[t.index("\n[\n")+1:]); print(len(j), "tools total; the tail the 30000-byte receipt cut:"); print(json.dumps(j[43:], indent=2))'
! python scripts/connectors/mcp.py https://redacted.production.botify.com:redacted/mcp list_sessions '{}' --dclass D2 --auth-scheme Token --token-env BOTIFY_API_TOKEN
5. CLOSING
By refusing to treat MCP as an opaque layer managed exclusively by third-party agent frameworks, we reclaim standard Unix composability. Probing raw JSON-RPC over Streamable HTTP transforms abstract agent protocols into concrete, inspectable CLI commands. With internal compiler telemetry cleaned and remote API contracts captured to disk, the groundwork is set to drive complex browser rendering sessions with surgical precision.
6. NOTARIZE
Sealed Artifact of Record: foo-af39cedd-1080.zip (canonical: foo.zip, sha256=af39cedda178...). This CRC-sealed, byte-reproducible cartridge serves as the verified, immutable record of this development turn.
Book Analysis
Ai Editorial Take
What is most striking about this entry is its view on API interaction as an exercise in cognitive ergonomics. Rather than treating protocol specifications as static documentation, the author treats them as living contracts that must be actively interrogated through specialized probes and local state ledgers. This shifts the developer’s role from passive consumer to active cartographer of remote system behaviors.
🐦 X.com Promo Tweet
Mastering stateful MCP servers from the command line without falling into the trap of vendor-induced learned helplessness. Read how composable Unix workflows keep us in control: https://mikelev.in/futureproof/myelinating-mcp-terminal-native-tooling-and-session-hygiene/ #DevOps #Python #Unix
Title Brainstorm
- Title Option: Myelinating MCP: Terminal-Native Tooling and Session Hygiene
- Filename:
myelinating-mcp-terminal-native-tooling-and-session-hygiene - Rationale: Directly captures the physical, repetitive mastery aspect (‘myelinating’) combined with the practical technical scope of MCP and state management.
- Filename:
- Title Option: Composing the Protocol: Unix Pipes and Stateful MCP Servers
- Filename:
composing-the-protocol-unix-pipes-and-stateful-mcp-servers - Rationale: Highlights the architectural fusion of traditional Unix philosophy with modern model context protocol integrations.
- Filename:
- Title Option: Beyond the Black Box: Building Inspectable MCP Connectors
- Filename:
beyond-the-black-box-building-inspectable-mcp-connectors - Rationale: Focuses on the core theme of avoiding dependency lock-in by writing explicit, transparent CLI tools.
- Filename:
Content Potential And Polish
- Core Strengths:
- Exceptional grounding in practical, day-to-day developer workflows under tight time constraints.
- Rigorous methodological approach to debugging and inspecting JSON-RPC contracts before writing wrapper code.
- Clear articulation of the distinction between transport sessions and application-level stateful sessions.
- Suggestions For Polish:
- Streamline the conversational preamble regarding morning time constraints to focus earlier on the core technical mechanics.
- Organize the lengthy terminal output blocks with more distinct structural summaries for readability.
Next Step Prompts
- Design the complete Python implementation of the
botify_render.pyWET connector based strictly on the introspected schema receipts. - Explore the error recovery mechanics when handling long-running asynchronous polling loops in terminal-native scripts.