dropthejase plugs Louis into outside tools, with the keys locked away
The fork can now call external services as if they were built-in skills - and the credentials never sit in plain text.
dropthejase has wired Louis up to MCP, a standard way for AI assistants to reach out to outside tools and data sources and treat them as first-class abilities rather than bolt-ons. The seed connection points at a UK government legal-AI service, but the plumbing is general - any compatible service can slot in.
The interesting move is on the security side. Rather than parking access tokens in environment variables or config files (where they tend to leak into logs and screenshots), Louis pulls each server's credential from a managed secrets vault at startup, scoped per service. It's the sort of pattern an enterprise security review would actually pass, and it's reusable by anyone forking Mike who needs to connect to paid APIs, internal knowledge bases, or partner systems without the usual credential-sprawl headaches.
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