# MPC appreciation

**URL:** <https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/mpc-appreciation/86976>\
**Category:** Artificial Intelligence\
**Created:** [May 22, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/mpc-appreciation/86976 "2026-05-22T14:07:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![anonny](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@anonny](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/anonny)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/mpc-appreciation/86976/1 "2026-05-22T14:07:54Z")

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Great job on the MCP!

I’m still testing it out, but I appreciate that you decided to do it.  
I’ve really gotten into Hermes Agent, and working through MCP will help a lot with organizing the flood of information that I currently have to deal with..

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/mpc-appreciation/86976/2 "2026-05-22T14:13:07Z")

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> [@anonny](#):
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> Great job on the MCP!

Thank you for the kind words, really appreciated.

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**Author:** ![davem](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/davem/32/4919_2.png) [@davem](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/davem)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 10:42am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/mpc-appreciation/86976/3 "2026-05-25T10:42:16Z")

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Thanks +1. It’s nuts that I can use an external AI to talk to DEVONthink, where it will use DEVONthink’s _internal_ AI to retrieve data for Claude. It’s AI all the way down!

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**Author:** ![dargelm](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@dargelm](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/dargelm)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/mpc-appreciation/86976/4 "2026-05-25T14:44:06Z")

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> [@anonny](#):
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> Great job on the MCP!

Could you please explain that? I might have missed something. But as I’m also working with (or rather experimenting with) Hermes Agent (and AgentZero), I’ve already been wondering how I might manage to integrate it with DEVONthink.

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**Author:** ![dargelm](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@dargelm](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/dargelm)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/mpc-appreciation/86976/5 "2026-05-25T14:48:06Z")

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It’s magic: just a moment after I wrote that question, I received an update notification for Devonthink:“DEVONthink 4.3 Herschel introduces our MCP server:”

We should share our experiences of this new technology in a dedicated section of this forum.

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**Author:** ![dargelm](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@dargelm](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/dargelm)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 3:19pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/mpc-appreciation/86976/6 "2026-05-25T15:19:23Z")

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my [first question](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/using-mcp-server/86999).

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**Author:** ![anonny](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@anonny](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/anonny)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 4:25pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/mpc-appreciation/86976/7 "2026-05-25T16:25:09Z")

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I don’t understand the difficulty.

Devonthink gave me the option to connect Hermes Agent, so I didn’t really have to do anything. It also had options for Codex, and Claude Code.

After that, just ask your agents to do what you want.

Or, once you have the MCP installed, just ask Hermes to set it up for you.

I don’t really go into any config settings anymore. Hermes does all the grunt work.

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**Author:** ![dargelm](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@dargelm](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/dargelm)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/mpc-appreciation/86976/8 "2026-05-25T18:26:50Z")

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> [@anonny](#):
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> Devonthink gave me the option to connect Hermes Agent,

That wasn’t the case for me, as I use a Hemres Agent server on the LAN rather than a local installation on my computer.

Anyway, I’m sure I’ll find a solution.

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**Author:** ![anonny](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@anonny](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/anonny)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/mpc-appreciation/86976/9 "2026-05-25T18:52:51Z")

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I run it straight on my mac.. I keep backups separately, so I’m not worried about nefarious activity.

I think the biggest difference has been creating profiles.

Running Hermes gets expensive, so I need to disable skills, and keep only those that fit the scope of an agent. The agents are all ‘specialized’ so I have a coding, notes, and ‘general’ agent atm.

They each have their own ‘profiles’ which keep them in their lane. If you’re paranoid, you can even make it so that each only has access to one tool, for example emacs. I use the notes one with access only to emacs. One advantage of that is context window. It’s able to view a 500k token file because it doesn’t load the whole file, it only accesses a section of the file. I tell it to go to line 200 context 10 and it gets 10 lines above and below, and it’s able to edit sections instead of loading the whole file.

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**Author:** ![dargelm](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@dargelm](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/dargelm)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/mpc-appreciation/86976/10 "2026-05-25T19:16:56Z")

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I’ve still got a lot to learn. It’s a whole new world for an old white man 😉

In my experience, the Hermes agent is more cost-effective in a production environment than AgentZero, as Hermes uses better caching.