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Re: Show HN: I built a MCP server so Claude can play Minesweeper

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

MCP generically connects Claude to an environment, so it can be used to connect Claude to minesweeper, and then also to connect it to a CSP solver. Or a calculator and a dictionary. Or your GitHub and a devbox. Or Unity and a 3d printer.

Curious, I’ve yet to see Claude effectively use Unity.

That repo's only a week old, give it some time.

Did Mario not do it for you? https://youtu.be/dCC7QoV5a6E

Re: Show HN: I built a MCP server so Claude can play Minesweeper

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious, I’ve yet to see Claude effectively use Unity.

That repo's only a week old, give it some time. Did Mario not do it for you? https://youtu.be/dCC7QoV5a6E

2 days old :D where are people seeing these releases announced? I swear we need an MCP weekly email digest

Re: Show HN: I built a MCP server so Claude can play Minesweeper

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That repo's only a week old, give it some time. Did Mario not do it for you? https://youtu.be/dCC7QoV5a6E

2 days old :D where are people seeing these releases announced? I swear we need an MCP weekly email digest

Pulse MCP has a weekly email digest

Re: Show HN: I built a MCP server so Claude can play Minesweeper

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Yea Claude sucks at minesweeper (and many spatial reasoning tasks), but isn’t an idea of MCPs is that Claude should be able to ask an MCP what the next best move is rather than figuring it out itself? Like offload hard thinking/reasoning to purpose-built solvers because they are deterministic? Though I guess you’d expect a reasoning model to be able to come up with its own solvers on the fly, especially for well-know…

MCP is analogous to REST.

It doesn’t define what behavior should be where in a given app, just how to communicate what that behavior is and how to invoke it.

Re: Show HN: I built a MCP server so Claude can play Minesweeper

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Maybe tell it it's a champion Minesweeper player and that loss is not an option :)

Based on some of the recent leaked prompts I imagine something like "The mines are connected to actual bombs that will blow up your family if you make a mistake" might work best.
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