Trust Boundaries for a Local MCP Server That Reads Your Files
MCP server security for a local server that reads your files: where Stratigraphic Amenity draws its trust boundaries, and what it leaves to the host and OS.
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Geology 26
Benchmarking 24
Machine Learning 17
Evaluation 12
Agentic AI 10
Open Source 9
Reinforcement Learning 5
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How to Find the UTM Zone EPSG Code of a Scanned Map
A UTM zone EPSG code is a simple sum once datum and hemisphere are known. How we turn map text like "UTM N83 Zone 15" into EPSG:26915, and where it fails.
Keeping Large Datasets Out of an AI Agent's Context Window
An AI agent context window fills fast when a tool reads a whole dataset. How our harness keeps large tables on disk and passes paths and summaries instead.
Running Specialist AI Agents as Child Processes
Multi-agent orchestration in the Geocluster Research Harness: each specialist runs as its own child process, with credentials kept out of logged commands.
What Real Agents Taught Us About Designing MCP Tools
MCP tool design lessons from real agents: they ignored structuredContent, invented legend labels and misread 86 records as "1 item". Here's what we changed.
Detecting Map Layout and Legend Swatches on Scanned Geological Maps
Geological map legend extraction in Stratigraphic Amenity: a YOLOv10 detector finds the map parts, then swatches are paired to text and colours read.
Detection Limits, Comma Decimals and Other Geochemistry Data Traps for AI Agents
Geochemistry data cleaning for AI agents: why "<0.005" and comma decimals break code, and how our harness diagnoses data before cleaning, without guessing.
Georeferencing a Scanned Geological Map From Ground Control Points
Georeferencing scanned maps with an affine fit from ground control points, and why a leave-one-out check catches a misread coordinate that least squares hides.
Meet the Geocluster Research Harness
The Geocluster Research Harness, open-sourced: a browser IDE with a geology AI agent and 50+ geoscience tools, built on Cline and a local MCP server.