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Rebuild your own broken connector and finish the weekly update

A user's notes MCP was down - his own mistake - when his agent decided finishing the request mattered more: it researched the Joplin API, wrote, refactored, and debugged a 400-plus-line Python tool across five files, then used it to read his notes and write its weekly update markdown into Joplin as planned.

How it works

  1. Weekly update task starts
  2. Notes MCP is down
  3. Agent researches the Joplin API
  4. Writes and debugs a 400-line replacement tool
  5. Reads the notes
  6. Writes the weekly update in markdown

Why it’s worth knowing

The connector broke, so the agent manufactured a new one - 400 lines, five files, debugged - just to deliver a routine weekly note on time.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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