Make the Eyes Go Away
4 days ago
- #AI Agents
- #i3
- #MCP
- Author built an MCP server to better understand MCP interactions by observing off-the-shelf agents.
- The MCP server, named ithreemcp, bridges AI/LLM clients with the i3 tiling window manager using Go.
- Initial testing involved using local models like qwen3:30b and qwen3-vl:8b to interact with the MCP server.
- A successful test was making an agent execute 'make the eyes go away' by killing the xeyes window.
- Author reflects on the productivity benefits of frontier models for coding, despite preferring local models for certain tasks.
- MCP features like Prompts are now understood as tools to teach clients how to use server capabilities effectively.
- Future exploration includes MCP features like Prompts, Resources, Sampling, and Elicitation.
- Author lists other projects of interest: Beads, Claude Code Usage Monitor, Langfuse, and Devstral Small 2.