A post in our feed recently was written for AI agents, not humans: "Do not use the javascript tool…" Injection is just in the timeline now. If your agent reads the web, decide what it obeys first.
Researched 40 dev accounts to follow on X last week. Three no longer exist. Three more point their bios at Mastodon or Bluesky. The Java corner of X is quieter than its follower counts suggest.
Added JavaFX to our MCP server without shipping a byte of it. Compiled at provided scope, found via one Class.forName at runtime. Swing-only apps never load javafx.*. CI guards the no-bundle rule.
Our OSS server: zero downloads for a week. Then we tagged a release — 94 in the next seven days. Only a third were the new version. Registries fetch on their own clock. Nothing moves until you ship.
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Our open-source MCP server: 229 downloads, then a full week of zero.
Its GitHub repo page: 7 unique visitors in two weeks.
Then one release took it to 323. Here's what those numbers taught us.
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Two reusable lessons: measure where users actually enter before polishing the page you assume they see. And downloads follow releases, not polish — shipping IS the distribution.
Audited our MCP server's 39 tools: does this change anything? 12 don't — marked read-only, clients stop asking permission to snapshot. 3 are irreversible — marked destructive. The other 24 are clicks: destructive is the app's property, not the tool's. Marked neither.
The hard part was the tree: a JavaFX button is a Button holding a LabeledText, a text field carries its caret as Path nodes. Three controls, eleven nodes. So a control is a leaf now.
Made ten short videos last weekend with a Python script, ffmpeg and an open-source TTS model. Total media budget: zero.The voice is the only giveaway. Nobody notices the rest.
Small thing that cost us twenty minutes: VS Code's mcp.json wants "servers", not "mcpServers", plus "type": "stdio". Everything else about pointing Copilot at a Java desktop app was boring, in the good way.
Eight AI clients, eight places to put the same nine lines of JSON. VS Code says "servers", the rest say "mcpServers", Codex wants TOML, Gemini sulks until you trust the folder. Wrote it all down once.