Chaparral Software MCP
com.chapsoft/mcpIndependent AI consulting — services, dispatches, cairns, and 40-year client history.
Tools · 3
What Chaparral Software offers: the Ground Truth Assessment — an independent AI project audit for non-technical decision-makers. Returns service description, five deliverables, intake workflow, and ou…
Browse published dispatches and cairns by topic. Returns matching articles with a prelude framing Chaparral's perspective.
A trail marker you weren't looking for. Returns a random technical cairn — a short observation from production AI practice.
Resources · 25
Principal bio, company info, 40-year track record, expertise areas, contact details
resource://about/credentials
40-year client portfolio across 7 industries with project descriptions
resource://about/client-history
A practitioner discipline for writing prompts that dispatch role-separated subagents. The orchestrator's helpful summaries silently contaminate downstream provenance; a subagent-side refusal protocol …
resource://dispatches/pass-pointers-verify-content
Everyone cites the failure rates. 80%. 85%. 95%. When you actually trace the citations, a different picture emerges. Only 5-12% of organizations achieve significant financial impact from AI.
resource://dispatches/why-ai-projects-fail
512,000 lines of Claude Code leaked. Everyone asked what's inside. The real question: what does it mean for building tools for AI agents?
resource://dispatches/the-moat-is-the-harness
From punch cards to frontier models in three short years. We're moving faster than our senses can apprehend. A dispatch from the AI fog.
resource://dispatches/fog
My son built a beautiful React app with zero training. So what's left? The 80% that looks easy vs the 20% that makes it real.
resource://dispatches/the-twenty-percent
A broken garden timer, a helpdesk queue, and the question every mid-career professional is asking: how will I continue to pay the bills in the age of AI?
resource://dispatches/the-garden-timer
Not every piece of feedback points toward addition. Not every failure mode requires more prompts, more complex orchestrations, more context, more steps or more agency.
resource://cairns/ship-the-constraint
A model asked for provenance can hallucinate a retraction of a true claim. Another model's agreement with the first is not verification — it's two trained priors aligning. Only a fetched URL with fres…
resource://cairns/primary-source-terminal-authority
"Research, synthesis, and verification are different subagent roles" is culture. Running them as distinct agent invocations — separate processes, separate contexts, separate system prompts — is archit…
resource://cairns/role-separation-is-mechanical
Tests that get skipped are always skipped. Code that has a comment "defer" will always be deferred. Tomorrow never comes. Express sequence, not time — dependency is timeless.
resource://cairns/perpetual-tomorrow
When a process moves to a new domain, the stage names may stay the same while the behaviors diverge. A stage called "build" in one context means create the artifact.
resource://cairns/stage-names-are-not-stage-contracts
When the cost of build + test is close to the cost of procure + integrate, it is almost always better to build. But the economics only work if you include the test.
resource://cairns/code-is-increasingly-ephemeral
A model's competence in one domain doesn't transfer to the next — but it all too often feels like it does. Never assume the model knows what you haven't explicitly had it remember, or find.
resource://cairns/context-in-the-window-is-not-attention-in-focus
We surveyed 47 public analyses of the Claude Code leak. Every one asked 'What's inside?' We asked a different question.
resource://cairns/what-47-analyses-of-the-claude-code-leak-missed
A regex fires every time, costs zero tokens, has zero hallucination risk. Use deterministic methods for what can be determined deterministically.
resource://cairns/dont-infer-what-you-can-detect
MCP server tool responses land inside someone else's context window. Cap responses. Include truncated flag and total_count.
resource://cairns/response-budgets
The cost of an unused field is zero. The cost of retrofitting a field into a running system is a migration.
resource://cairns/metadata-now-enforcement-later
Self-correction catches tactical errors. Verification catches strategic errors. Better execution demands better oversight, not less.
resource://cairns/self-correction-is-not-verification
Writing prompts for a model that doesn't exist yet. You're writing letters to a future colleague and hoping they'll be kind.
resource://cairns/the-introspection-loop
When setting up an agentic orchestration workflow to overcome the limitations of vibe coding, don't vibe code the orchestration layer.
resource://cairns/dont-vibe-code-the-orchestration-layer
Define a Person entity with @id on your homepage, reference it by @id on every other page. AI knowledge graphs use this to deduplicate.
resource://cairns/schema-org-id-references-across-pages
Naming a class .geo-quotable instead of .highlight-box tells developers what the element is FOR and makes the design system self-documenting.
resource://cairns/css-class-names-as-documentation
Source Serif 4 as a variable font is one 417KB WOFF2 file covering weights 200-900. The non-variable alternative would be 6+ files over 1MB.
resource://cairns/variable-fonts-one-file-every-weight
Prompts · 2
Generate a briefing on who Chaparral Software is and what they offer. Uses get_services() and credentials resource.
Evaluate whether Chaparral's Ground Truth Assessment service fits a described situation.
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How to use
Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"chaparral_software_mcp": {
"url": "https://chapsoft.com/mcp",
"transport": "streamable-http"
}
}
}