Show HN: Ocarina – Automate and test MCP servers from YAML, no LLM
Hi all. As someone who has spent years working with Ansible and other automation frameworks, the recent MCP boom has me fascinated. People are creating nice, typed, LLM-readable (and thus human-readable) interfaces for their servers, over a standardized protocol that exposes both tools and resources. I wanted to see if I could create a way to run scripts against these servers directly, with no AI in the loop. Ocarina lets you inspect MCP server characteristics and write Rondos (the equivalent of
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Hi all. As someone who has spent years working with Ansible and other automation frameworks, the recent MCP boom has me fascinated. People are creating nice, typed, LLM-readable (and thus human-readable) interfaces for their servers, over a standardized protocol that exposes both tools and resources. I wanted to see if I could create a way to run scripts against these servers directly, with no AI in the loop. Ocarina lets you inspect MCP server characteristics and write Rondos (the equivalent of