A community server submission of the Personal Intelligence Framework,…

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… a proof of concept for exploring structured emergence in human-AI interaction

Description

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This is a new server which includes some elements from other servers such as the filesystem and sequentialthink. With some configuration it should in theory be able to support the addition of most other servers as modules. This is not as much a technical innovation as it is a proof of concept for a novel usage pattern in human-AI frameworks.

Motivation and Context

The Personal Intelligence Framework was conceived as a result of some research into how an environment can shape interactions, and how interactions can shape an environment. One's MCP server or personal intelligence framework can evolve through collaborative decision making within these user-interface feedback loops. The term I've been using for this pattern is "structured emergence". At the same time, the MCP-PIF seeks to address the problem of maintaining continuity, through a system of documentation that focuses on progressive disclosure and context transfer between sessions. The idea is that an LLM can be "reconstituted" quickly by engaging with the servers contents, recent journal entries, and relevant files and documentation, reducing the friction and ambiguity in this process.

How Has This Been Tested?

This has been tested with Claude Sonnet, used in practice, and iterated upon for a couple months, using many of the reference servers such as filesystem and sequentialthink as inspiration. For each module, some edge cases have been accounted for, but most likely not all of them.

For the filesystem module:

• Path validation and boundaries have been tested
• Whitespace handling and line ending normalization tested on Windows
• Validation of file existence before operations
• Directory traversal prevention
• Proper error handling for invalid operations
• Testing of all core operations (read, write, append, replace, edit)

For the reasoning module:

• Testing of different thought relationship types (sequence, reflection, association)
• Validation of relationship references (preventing forward references)
• Error handling for invalid relationship structures
• Different duration patterns with the think tool
• Complex thought chains and relationship networks

For the journal module:

• Entry creation with various metadata combinations
• Date-based filtering and retrieval
• Tag-based organization and filtering
• File reference tracking
• Multiple output format support (text/json)
• Directory structure maintenance

General system testing:

• Module interaction and cooperation
• Progressive context building across sessions
• Error propagation and handling
• Configuration validation
• Workspace boundary enforcement

Breaking Changes

The MCP-PIF is designed as an extensible framework that can operate at different levels of integration:

1. Basic Usage: No breaking changes when used alongside other servers - standard MCP client configuration applies.

2. Module Integration: When extending the framework with new modules or migrating existing tools, changes will be required to conform to the module system's type handling and architecture. This is by design, as the framework's purpose is to provide a structured foundation for tool evolution.

The framework can thus be seen as "low level" in the sense that it provides base patterns for structured emergence, but this architectural choice is central to its purpose rather than a limitation. Users can choose their level of engagement, from basic tool usage to deep integration.

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Documentation update

Given the circumstances above, I have selected "new feature" and "breaking change" because the type of change depends on the user's chosen level of integration.

Checklist

• I have read the MCP Protocol Documentation
• My changes follows MCP security best practices
• I have updated the server's README accordingly
• I have tested this with an LLM client
• My code follows the repository's style guidelines
• New and existing tests pass locally
• I have added appropriate error handling
• I have documented all environment variables and configuration options

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