Comment by romanovcode
2 days ago
COMMAND LINE: You have to instruct your AI what this tool is and what it should be used for.
MCP: You paste one command to register the MCP and your AI will always know what it is and where/why it should be used.
2 days ago
COMMAND LINE: You have to instruct your AI what this tool is and what it should be used for.
MCP: You paste one command to register the MCP and your AI will always know what it is and where/why it should be used.
This is pretty naive based on my experience. I find it hard to get the LLM to consistently use the tools defined, so "always" is doing some questionable lifting here. I've had easy better luck with pretty simple, linear workflows, so telling your LLM to "know use this clip tool to..." Might be more effective than an agent that has a bunch of tools and might use the expected one. YMMV
> COMMAND LINE: You have to instruct your AI what this tool is and what it should be used for.
Or—and please bear with me, I know this may sound insane—you call the command-line tool yourself, reliably, fast, with little overhead, just like it has worked for decades.
I know, I know, soon most people won’t even know how to unzip their pants without spending unnecessary amounts of electricity and waiting for several seconds for an LLM response, but believe me that just using your hands is a solution worth checking out.
I think the goal of this project is not to simplify the use of Annas Archive for humans (as they could just use the Website anyways), but to allow AI "Agents" to automatically source information out of books while researching without requiring user interaction.
The LLM's default web-browsing tool probably won't or can't download books from AA while looking for information on a subject. This enables it to do so.
Are you sure? From OPs comment:
>I justified the hours I invested by thinking I could search, download, and explore books directly from Claude Desktop.
Although you're right that it can be used for use cases like you're describing.