NVIDIA App 11.0.9.565 ships a loopback MCP server so compatible agents (Hermes, OpenClaw, Perplexity, etc.) can list games, apply optimal settings, and control ShadowPlay/screenshots via natural language—toggle under Settings > Features > AI Agents and App Connections. This workflow is listed under mcp, desktop-agents, gaming, local-tools, learnable-paradigm.
Self Labs’ Agent Vault gives agents mock tokens for checkout and sign-in; real card numbers and passwords never reach the model. Caps, merchant allowlists, and per-purchase approval. Connect Grok Bot via MCP or Meta Muse via custom connector in ~2 minutes (also Claude Code, Hermes, Codex).
Taiwan-built open-source Go daemon runs on your machine (memory/schedules/credentials stay local): if a tool is missing it writes, sandbox-tests, and registers one, then shares the library with Claude Code/Codex via MCP server mode—alternative to cloud VM agent products.
Open-source mcp-router sits between Claude Code and many MCP servers: find_tools / call_tool / run_script stand in for hundreds of tools; on a 441-tool fleet vs six other proxies it finished 6/6 tasks at −29% tokens while peers often used more tokens or failed—Show HN + public BENCHMARK.md.
SuperCompress v2 compresses context against the query (keeps answer-critical lines verbatim): ~64% mean cut on their B5 coding-agent suite with 24/24 evidence-retention passes; MCP/plugin for Cursor/Claude Code/Codex plus hosted API and open weights.