Someone has to be the first one to talk about LLMs controlling our bioreactors… any plans to make an MCP that would call the endpoints for receiving information and controlling the reactor? “Add 10mL of media if the OD has gone above a certain level, but not if you’ve done it within the last half hour” would be pretty cool
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Specifically, seems like this grant might be applicable to this: goose grant program | codename goose
Someone has to be the first one to talk about LLMs controlling our bioreactors… any plans to make an MCP that would call the endpoints for receiving information and controlling the reactor?
haha we’ve long ago has the discussion internally, and even got a simple prototype working.
I have an idea for a better solution than our initial prototype, I just need to sit down and get it done.
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Happy to see if we can help if there’s a branch/repo anywhere? Or potentially that block grant could fund someone?
With Claude’s help I have an MVP of the MCP server running as a plugin on our pioreactor. You can use an MCP client like goose to connect to the server and access the tools/resources. Repo is here: GitHub - Change-Bio/pioreactor-mcp
You’ll need to forward port 8000 over tailscale:
sudo tailscale serve --bg --http 8000 --set-path /mcp http://localhost:8000/mcp
Then you can use the tailscale address with an MCP client/host. In my case the goose settings look like this:
Future steps are to add more tools/resources, make sure there are safety features embedded, and add some kind of MCP client/host locally on the pioreactor so there can be a chat window in the UI. The latter isn’t a priority for us as we’re happy connecting over tailscale but would make it much more accessible to people. THe local MCP client would just connect to localhost:8000
https://photos.app.goo.gl/dUs8JtNo6MZgvcMS7 - Here’s a video showing what we have so far 