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Five months after the manual-to-MCP pivot, I noticed the MCP server was doing two different jobs. One was a tool surface for an agent — the task for which I'd designed and built the MCP server. The other was the hosting environment for the daemon itself: long-running, stateful, with a job queue and a state machine that wanted to live longer than any single Claude Desktop session. For most of those five months, the two jobs sharing one process was fine. Then it wasn't. ...

"The personal daemon was a semi-autonomous piece of software that lived in your system and acted as your agent, going out into the Cloud to do things for you." — Neal Stephenson, Fall, or Dodge in Hell I have been quietly drowning in feeds for years. Not in a productive way — in the "I have 47 tabs open and three of them are arXiv" way. AI research, cloud infrastructure, smart-grid news. Each domain moves fast enough on its own; together they generate more credible signal than any one human can absorb. ...