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Nymbo 
posted an update 17 days ago
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I've added an 11th tool to the Nymbo/Tools MCP server, it's for your Obsidian_Vault. I'd argue it's far more context-efficient than any other Obsidian MCP I've seen, and doesn't require any plugins. Also some big improvements to the Web_Search and Web_Fetch tools.

# Obsidian_Vault Tool

It's basically a read-only version of the File_System tool, but it works so well for navigating Obsidian without unnecessary context. It supports recursive (full-text) search across the entire vault, and supports offset so the agent can "scroll" through a document without re-consuming tokens.

Run the server locally and set the OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ROOT environment variable to your vault's root path. If you don't use Obsidian, this is perfectly usable as simply a read-only filesystem.

# Web_Search Improvements

The Web_Search tool previously just used DuckDuckGo as a backend search engine, but now it also supports Bing, Brave, Yahoo, and Wikipedia. Default engine is auto which provides results from all backends in recommended order. Still doesn't require any kind of API or auth for Web_Search.

There's also a new date filter to limit results to those created in the past day, week, month, or year. Oh, and uhh, SafeSearch is now off by default :)

# Web_Fetch Improvements

As context-efficient as the Markdown mode is for web browsing, sometimes it does lose important context in the conversion from HTML to Markdown. So I've added a new HTML mode to the Web_Fetch tool that basically executes a cURL request on the URL, returning the full HTML page if necessary.

# A Note on Claude Skills

I've been having fun with the new File_System and Shell_Command tools. Using Claude Skills doesn't currently work in the public HF space because of environment restrictions, but using Skills works perfectly well running locally.

Happy building ~
merve 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR is out! 🔥 my take ⤵️
> pretty insane it can parse and re-render charts in HTML
> it uses CLIP and SAM features concatenated, so better grounding
> very efficient per vision tokens/performance ratio
> covers 100 languages
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Nymbo 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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Two new tools added to the Nymbo/Tools MCP server, File_System and Shell_Exec. You can theoretically do basically anything with these two tools, and it should enable support for many Claude Skills.

GPT-5-Codex proves that for many cases, shell commands really are all you need, and Claude Skills seem to lean into this. The thing is, nothing about the design of Claude Skills actually restricts them to proprietary models!

# File_System

There's a new directory inside the repo called Filesystem, that's the agent's "root". It can perform the following actions : list, read, write, append, mkdir, move, copy, delete, info, help. It's able to keep this all within the scope of one tool call by making the Action field required and all other fields optional. Using a filesystem shouldn't require 15 different tools.

Files created in the public HF space live in the space's running container, and gets cleared when the space is restarted. When running the server locally, files are actually stored on disk.

# Shell_Exec

What good is a filesystem if you can't execute commands in that filesystem? This tool automatically detects if the server is running on Windows or Linux, and suggests using the appropriate shell (PowerShell/Bash). Both of these new tools require that the agent uses relative paths, rather than absolute paths. I could be convinced to back pedal on this.

# Closing Thoughts

The File_System and Shell_Exec tools aren't super polished yet, I'll continue to improve the agent's instructions and UX of using the new tools. Most of my testing was done with gpt-oss-20b and if it messes up, it gets the gist after one failed tool call. It should work perfectly fine for the GPU poor.
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Nymbo 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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I've made some improvements to my custom Deep_Research tool in the Nymbo/Tools MCP server. I've added a second LLM process and it still takes less than 1 minute to complete!

The original version of my Deep_Research tool would basically dump up to 50 fetched webpages onto the Researcher model (Qwen3-235B), with only a little bit of context shown from each page.

# New "Filterer" Process

The new process includes another LLM call before the researcher process. The Filterer (also Qwen3-235B) gets the query summary and the original 50 pages with low context, and decides which pages are most relevant to the research topic. The Filterer then outputs the URLs to the relevant pages, which are then re-fetched (with more context) and sent to the Researcher.

# Researcher Context

The Researcher now gets only the relevant webpages, then begins writing the report. When testing with 50 initial results, the researcher would often end up with 10-20 results of relevant context.

It still takes less than a minute to accomplish everything, thanks entirely to Cerebras inference. It now takes about 35-45 seconds to complete once the tool is run.

It's also worth noting that both the Filterer and Researcher now are provided the current time/date before they see the content, reducing hallucinations caused by knowledge cutoffs.
Nymbo 
posted an update about 2 months ago
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I have a few Sora-2 invites - 15509N
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merve 
posted an update about 2 months ago
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large AI labs open-sourced a ton of models last week 🔥
here's few picks, find even more here merve/sep-16-releases-68d13ea4c547f02f95842f05 🤝
> IBM released a new Docling model with 258M params based on Granite (A2.0) 📝 ibm-granite/granite-docling-258M
> Xiaomi released 7B audio LM with base and instruct variants (MIT) XiaomiMiMo/mimo-audio-68cc7202692c27dae881cce0
> DecartAI released Lucy Edit, open Nano Banana 🍌 (NC) decart-ai/Lucy-Edit-Dev
> OpenGVLab released a family of agentic computer use models (3B/7B/32B) with the dataset 💻 OpenGVLab/scalecua-68c912cf56f7ff4c8e034003
> Meituan Longcat released thinking version of LongCat-Flash 💭 meituan-longcat/LongCat-Flash-Thinking
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Nymbo 
posted an update 2 months ago
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There's now a custom Deep_Research tool in my Nymbo/Tools MCP server! TL;DR: The agent using the tools writes a summary of your requests and up to five DuckDuckGo searches (up to 50 results). Each of the webpages found in the searches are then fetched and given to our researcher (Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507). The researcher sees the summary, searched queries, and fetched links, then writes a thorough research report. The agent using the tool provides the user with a summary of the report and a link to download research_report.txt. The researcher's instructions are similar to some leaked Perplexity sys prompts.

# Deep_Research Tool

It accomplishes everything in under a minute so it doesn't hit MCP's 60 second timeout, mostly thanks to Cerebras. The only thing required to make this work is a HF_READ_TOKEN for inference.

The Deep_Research tool could certainly be improved. It still needs some sort of mechanism for sorting URLs based on importance (I've got some ideas but I don't want it to be the responsibility of the agent using the tool). I'll probably add a second researcher to filter out the bad sources before inferencing the big researcher. I'm hellbent on keeping this all within the scope of one tool call.

# More Fetch/Web Search Improvements

The Search_DuckDuckGo tool has been further enhanced. It now allows the agent to browse through all pages of results. The results also now include published date (if detected). It also now supports every DDG search types! Default DDG search is called text, but it can also now search by news, images, videos, and books.

The Fetch_Webpage tool now specifies how much of the page has been truncated, and cursor index, allowing it to pickup where it left off without re-consuming tokens. The model can now also choose to strip CSS selectors to remove excess noise, and there's a new URL Scraper mode that only returns URLs found on the full page.

More to come soon ~
merve 
posted an update 2 months ago
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IBM just released small swiss army knife for the document models: granite-docling-258M on Hugging Face 🔥

> not only a document converter but also can do document question answering, understand multiple languages 🤯
> best part: released with Apache 2.0 license 👏 use it with your commercial projects!
> it supports transformers, vLLM and MLX from the get-go! 🤗
> built on SigLIP2 & granite-165M

model: ibm-granite/granite-docling-258M
demo: ibm-granite/granite-docling-258m-demo 💗
merve 
posted an update 2 months ago
merve 
posted an update 2 months ago
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fan-favorite vision LM Florence-2 is now officially supported in transformers 🤗

find all the models in florence-community org 🫡
merve 
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merve 
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Nymbo 
posted an update 2 months ago
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I have a few updates to my MCP server I wanna share: New Memory tool, improvements to web search & speech generation.

# Memory_Manager Tool

We now have a Memory_Manager tool. Ask ChatGPT to write all its memories verbatim, then tell gpt-oss-20b to save each one using the tool, then take them anywhere! It stores memories in a memories.json file in the repo, no external database required.

The Memory_Manager tool is currently hidden from the HF space because it's intended for local use. It's enabled by providing a HF_READ_TOKEN in the env secrets, although it doesn't actually use the key for anything. There's probably a cleaner way of ensuring memory is only used locally, I'll come back to this.

# Fetch & Websearch

The Fetch_Webpage tool has been simplified a lot. It now converts the page to Markdown and returns the page with three length settings (Brief, Standard, Full). This is a lot more reliable than the old custom extraction method.

The Search_DuckDuckGo tool has a few small improvements. The input is easier for small models to get right, and the output is more readable.

# Speech Generation

I've added the remaining voices for Kokoro-82M, it now supports all 54 voices with all accents/languages.

I also removed the 30 second cap by making sure it computes all chunks in sequence, not just the first. I've tested it on outputs that are ~10 minutes long. Do note that when used as an MCP server, the tool will timeout after 1 minute, nothing I can do about that for right now.

# Other Thoughts

Lots of MCP use cases involve manipulating media (image editing, ASR, etc.). I've avoided adding tools like this so far for two reasons:

1. Most of these solutions would require assigning it a ZeroGPU slot.
2. The current process of uploading files like images to a Gradio space is still a bit rough. It's doable but requires additional tools.

Both of these points make it a bit painful for local usage. I'm open to suggestions for other tools that rely on text.
louisbrulenaudet 
posted an update 3 months ago
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Supercharge Apple’s Shortcuts using Cloudflare Workers and Gemini within minutes (and for free, up to 1,500 requests per day) ☁️✨

Hello everyone, last week, while experimenting for fun, I created an API that allows you to easily access AI models (in this case, Google's) from the Shortcut app in order to analyze data from my apps and make the most of it thanks to the generative capabilities of advanced models.

It costs me nothing, and I think it might be good to share it so that others can build on it.

In README.md, you will find everything you need to get started and put your own microservice into production, which you can call from the app’s HTTP request features.

You will simply be asked to have a free Cloudflare account and an API key obtained from Google's AI Studio.

Feel free to take a look and get back to me if you encounter any problems during deployment.

Here is the GitHub repo where you can find all the source code and run it on your own: https://github.com/louisbrulenaudet/genai-api