[tpm] Fwd: Meeting tonight?

[Olaf Alders]

On a related note, some of us will informally be chatting about AI. https://luma.com/dphtpj7m

Anyone is welcome to join. No expertise required. 

On Thu, Mar 26, 2026, at 3:40 PM, Marc Perry wrote:
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> From: *Marc Perry* <marcperryster at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 3:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [tpm] Meeting tonight?
> To: James E Keenan <jkeenan at pobox.com>
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> https://luma.com/bdom1gut?tk=gG6BLS 
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> Topic: Toronto.pm <http://toronto.pm/> - Lembark talk
>     Time: Mar 26, 2026 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
>     https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83060065332?pwd=5caWQ49cB9yr4VCRseNWNEoVFmHCoo.1
>     Meeting ID: 830 6006 5332       Passcode: 670376
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> Designing Perly MCPs for Claude
> The MCP standard allows defining actions for cases where the AI doesn’t already know how to glue
> together shell commands or must make connections to specialized services like databases. From the AI
> and user’s point of view this MCP is defined by its tool specification. This tells the AI when and how to
> use the specific tools. Proper tool definition is critical to the proper selection and use of the tools.
> As a trivial example we start with a time service based on enums to specify strftime formats for stan-
> dard uses, descriptions to Claude on how to select and apply them. These could obviously be supplied
> by the date(1) shell command, but the focus here is on making effective tool definitions and supporting
> code and this is a suitably simple example. The next section describes approaches to configuring the
> tool, showing basic descriptions and how to extend each of them for better accuracy in Claude’s calling
> them. Following that will be examples of the data structures used by Claude to call the MCP and Perl
> code for handling them effectively. The result is a small, efficient, lightweight module and executable
> for generic MCP handling. The final sections describe extending the MCP to handle arguments and
> 
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