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Cracking Shells

@crackingshells.bsky.social

We build open-source infrastructure to package, share, and deploy #MCP servers for scientific applications. 🔗 GitHub: github.com/CrackingShells 🐣 Early-stage, hackathon-driven, and growing.

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Cracking Shells @crackingshells.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

It came out prettier than I thought! 😊 Just released Hatch v0.8.0. This update is all about UX: clean tables, helpful colors, outputs that actually make sense. 🐣 `pip install hatch-xclam` #MCP #AIForScience

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Cracking Shells @crackingshells.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

*Hatch!* v0.7.1 is out! 🐣 github.com/CrackingShel... It adds support for managing #MCP servers in - Codex - Kiro #AIForScience

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Cracking Shells @crackingshells.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Name tags for our #MCP hackathon next week! Embracing Japan's 紅葉 season🍁🍂 for the theme 🐣 #AIForScience

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Cracking Shells @crackingshells.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Announcing our 2nd #MCP Hackathon – Nov 25-26 @ #RIKEN Kobe, Japan! After a closed first edition in August, we’re back open to all! Join up to 50 researchers/engineers to build MCP servers for scientific applications. 🔗 Sign up: forms.gle/vhTcV4uGDK9f... Details⬇️ #AIForScience #OpenScience

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Cracking Shells @crackingshells.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Last week at #ICSB2025, we shared how #MCP can make LLM-based agents reliable for #SystemsBiology. MCP was barely known there. All the more reason for Cracking Shells to exist: simplifying onboarding for researchers. #AIForScience

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Cracking Shells @crackingshells.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Last week's #DevLog Hatch! 0.7.0 now lets you add MCP packages with one command—It's multi-dependencies and multi-host. Finally some versatility for #MCP setup 🐣 Still a pre-release, bug fixes & docs in progress! #AIForScience

A screen shot describing the CLI command to run to enbale installing and deploying MCP servers packaged as *Hatch!* packages. Supported dependency types are Python, System (apt), Docker, and other *Hatch!* packages. Supported MCP hosts are Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, LM Studio, and Gemini

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Cracking Shells @crackingshells.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Here is nome inspiration from real-world MCP workflows (Slack → Notion/HubSpot). That could transfer to #LabAutomation e.g., routing logs from robotic systems or equipment notifications to research trackers. That could work today with systems we already have. #MCP #AIForScience

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Cracking Shells @crackingshells.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Last week, we hosted our first #MCP hackathon for science with 22 #researchers (computational physics, chemistry, biology). None had used MCP or LLMs APIs before. By the end, they’d created their own MCP servers. This was invite-only, but more events are coming! 🐣 #AIForScience

The name tag of one of the staff of a hackathon entitled "Hatch! - MCP servers for scientific applications". The hackathon was hosted bu RIKEN from the 28th to 29th of August 2025. The staff's name is JACOPIN Eliott and is affiliated with RIKEN BDR.

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