Darren Patterson

If I have to break out caps lock, then I'm probably like in a place where I should consider a different approach.

Yeah.

Never do this.

Right.

Those are tools I can easily add.

And of course, I can continue to add additional tools as well to say, hey.

And the example I use all the time that's kind of interesting here

Both of these approaches make perfect sense.

But at the end of this process, I could add on another step, which is a Slack message and say, and then at the end, just send a Slack message.

I'll determine the format and the exact message.

Or I can give a tool to the agent and say, hey, when you're done with everything, send a Slack message.

And these are both legitimate approaches.

And one of them I have more control over and one a little bit less control over.

So, these are additional options.

So, of course, you can use modules or scenarios.

A third type of tool, so to speak, is MCP, which increasingly I suspect many of your listeners are familiar with, but this is the model context protocol.

It's a standard way of an AI client talking to a tool, most often a software application,

We could definitely talk about MCP for a while.

Make operates in a unique place where this is an example where we're using MCP as a client and just to kind of show off that you can connect to any of these MCP servers.

Yeah.