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

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Post by speed_spread »

cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #28

For the acroym-averse: MCP = Model Context Protocol https://modelcontextprotocol.io/ "MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs."

Such hubris in naming. Connaisseurs know that MCP is forever reserved to Tron's Master Control Program.

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

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Post by dartos »

paulddraper wrote: post #30
breckenedge wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RPC, not REST

Like neither one. RPC and REST are architectural patterns/philosophies, not protocols. SOAP and HTTP are protocols, like MCP.

If we’re being technically correct, yes, but I was just trying to give an analogy to someone who I figured was pretty new to web tech.

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

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Post by paulddraper »

dartos wrote: post #34
paulddraper wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like neither one. RPC and REST are architectural patterns/philosophies, not protocols. SOAP and HTTP are protocols, like MCP.

If we’re being technically correct, yes, but I was just trying to give an analogy to someone who I figured was pretty new to web tech.

We have time, but there is a lot to do.

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

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Post by breckenedge »

prats226 wrote: post #29
breckenedge wrote: post #5

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…

This seems like intended usage? The server actually executes the moves and interacts with the environment, the core orchestration or reasoning is offloaded to claude?

Right, reasoning was offloaded to Claude. Claude is obviously terrible at Minesweeper. I’d like to see Claude orchestrate both playing the game as well as using another MCP to help it pick the next best move. Otherwise it’s just wasteful getting an LLM to reason about an already solved problem, it just chews up API requests. I followed the Manifold market for a while getting ChatGPT to play Sudoku —- each puzzle cost ~$20 to complete.
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