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mickdarling

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About mickdarling

Builder, and Founder

Dollhouse Research — composable AI tools, mostly open source (dollhouseresearch.com):

- DollhouseMCP: Open-source AI customization with AI safety as at it's core. Turn prompts into modular building blocks you can create, activate, combine, version, and share — Personas, Skills, Templates, Agents, Memories, and Ensembles. (dollhousemcp.com)

- Dollhouse Collection: community catalog of those elements (collection.dollhousemcp.com)

- MCP-AQL: a protocol spec that gives MCP tool calls semantic meaning — Create/Read/ Update/Delete/Execute endpoints that cut token overhead and make safe-vs-destructive operations explicit at the protocol layer (mcpaql.com)

- AILIS: an OSI-inspired, layered model that gives AI systems a shared vocabulary, so teams can tell a routing problem from a tool-invocation, memory, or UX one

- Also check out Merview.com, a local-first Markdown and Mermaid editor and viewer that runs entirely in your browser, no login

Elemental Surveys (elementalsurveys.com):

- Fast-turn market research — turn a brief into a QA'd questionnaire, analysis, charts, and a branded report in hours instead of weeks

Some Previous Projects:

- Created Tomorrowish.com a social media DVR used by Hulu, Fox, Turner Broadcasting, and more

- Cofounder and CEO of TVDuffle a Travel and booking app for concert goers and sports fans.

- Cofounder Biostrut 3D Printed organic tissue scaffold

ping me at my firstname@myfullname.com

My personal blog can also be found at http://mickdarling.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48707554

    If only the AI tools didn't shut you down every time you were trying to red team your own tools. I've had to come up with all kinds of workaround scenarios, effectively bypassing t…

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    Comment #48468725

    No, this is their get out of jail free card if people start complaining about the model being dumb or forgetful or lying, they can just say, oh well, you must have been doing somet…

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    Comment #48464796

    The tags are actually displayed in raw text not rendered.

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    Comment #48464213

    Below is the EXACT text in Claude Desktop introducing Fable 5, including the very professional looking break tags, and at least I know where the links begin and end by looking at t…

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    Comment #48314290

    I effectively distill the frontier models by building whole sets of skills, personas, and other artifacts that I can then run on smaller models and get 10% even 20% improvements on…

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    Comment #47819716

    I used it today to take a look at my previously built design system with Logos, branding, fonts, and everything else. After a lot of annoying tweaking back and forth, finally, I go…

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    Show HN: DollhouseMCP 2.0, open-source MCP composable AI building blocks

    Hi, I'm Mick. I've been building this for the last 9 months DollhouseMCP 2.0 is an open-source MCP server for making and using composable building blocks for AI customization. You …

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    Comment #47642155

    I'm working on a tool to determine which portions of an LLM process can be optimized, and how to measure that optimization and check whether it's optimizable at all. The shaping pa…

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    Comment #47593151

    Hey, LLM, take a look at these multiple hundred emails and docs in my docs folder from the last few years, before I started using AI, that I wrote personally. create a list of all …

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    Comment #47556208

    Maybe for you reading a paper deeply is the most constructive way that you have to absorb information. For me, it is having a document and interrogating it. Maybe having many sets …

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    Comment #47483530

    Might be worth something to create an AI summary of the actual documents that are behind the curtain. That way the Client can have some assurance of what the deliverables are. It's…

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    Comment #47483007

    I don't use Claw. It is way too dangerous. I built my own system where I know the ins and outs and how they can break. When it comes to agents' tasks, I tend to focus on things tha…

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    Comment #46972707

    You could literally drop this into Claude Code or Codex and point it at a local fork of Zulip and have it build your bimodal version with triage and grazing styles.

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    Comment #46935875

    I use an LLM behavior test to see if the semantic responses from LLMs using my MCP server match what I expect them to. This is beyond the regex tests, but to see if there's a seman…

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    Comment #46935817

    It looks like it does have an MCP Gateway https://github.com/github/gh-aw-mcpg so I may see how well it works with my MCP server. One of the components mine makes are agent element…

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    Comment #46913476

    This is where the desire to NOT anthropomorphize LLMs actually gets in the way. We have mechanisms for ensuring output from humans, and those are nothing like ensuring the output f…

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    Comment #46766519

    I'm looking at it right now as a tool I can hollow out and stuff in my own MCP server that also has personas, skills, an agentic loop, memory, all those pieces. I may even go simpl…

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    Comment #46673292

    Thank you for the note. It's not a site I used all that often. Whether you had anything to do with it or not, I have no idea. And, since you didn't follow best practices and tell m…

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    Comment #46658678

    Wasn't my project to manage. That was a consulting gig. And I fired the client right after this.

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    Comment #46652899

    Had humans not been doing this already, I would have walked into Samsung with the demo application that was working an hour before my meeting, rather than the android app that coul…

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    Comment #46638796

    I think Claude Cowork should come with a requirement or a very heavily structured wizard process to ensure the machine has something like a Time Machine backup or other backups tha…

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    Comment #46579023

    This looks cool! And, to add to the list of shameless plugs for OSS markdown editors/renderers With mermaid support, I will add mine to the list: https://merview.com with full sour…

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    Comment #46569823

    It certainly doesn't seem to have a trouble creating MIT licenses, that's for sure. I've had it insert an MIT license against my express direction instead of the AGPL license.

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    Comment #46569653

    Claude code refuses to generate AGPL 3.0 licenses or modify them. I've run into this with several projects.

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