While I have nothing to do, I built a universal agent that connects as an MCP server, executes a specific prompt, and can be wired up with tools from multiple MCP servers. The idea is that you can build individual agents and whole hierarchies of agents on top of it. Inside it’s a deep alpha with 12% coverage, but the core works. I built a Cursor architect on top of it, with a narrowly focused prompt for writing ADRs, and I like it so far (though I’m still missing more advanced search tools inside, like an LSP).

Next I’ll try to use it to create a minimally portable agent artifact and make groups of agents interact in different formats. Basically, it’s what I was playing with two years ago, but now with ready-made infrastructure in the form of the MCP spec, libraries, and utilities. I really want to extend my sabbatical 🙂

I also tried how quickly you can build a project website and all the surrounding glue. And it’s amazing! In 3–4 hours you can raise the perceived level of an OSS project from “someone hacked it together” to “looks nice, maybe there’s a team there.” And hacking on small utilities, like a configurator, is pure joy.