clovis

inspiration

i was already a fan of Poke's current abilities and integrations prior to thinking about what more it could possibly be capable of. the inspiration came from the simple idea of being able to seamlessly digitize human personality in a way that can be used in day-to-day interactions socially.

what it does

clovis is an MCP integration designed for Poke by interaction.co that enables truly personalized AI communication. by analyzing your writing patterns in depth, clovis gives Poke the means to mirror your unique communication style: your tone, your vocabulary, and your formality level, making every interaction feel authentically you.

clovis is a forward-looking integration feature not yet available in Poke. this MCP server integration demonstrates Poke could leverage protocol-level personalization to become more than just an AI assistant, and instead your digital communication persona.

how we built it

setting up the mcp server took a fastmcp instance, as well as an ngrok connection in order to give Poke access to the tools i made for it. the tools themselves were developed using python and json in order to grant Poke the information it needed to be more "me".

challenges we ran into

one of the biggest humps in the development process was a) determining how well this could be integrated into Poke's utility belt, and b) getting the MCP instance live and spun up.

accomplishments that we're proud of

i'm ultimately proud of the result that came out of this development process, but also especially because of the potential an idea like this holds for not just poke's future as an assistant, but just for how humans interact with machines, and vice versa.

i really like how seamlessly Poke ingested the mcp tools, and especially how well the output actually looked compared to my existing messages that i granted it access to.

what we learned

being that it was my first hackathon, i learned a lot about deploying model context protocol servers and integrating them with existing applications. it was also beneficial to learn more about how python and fastmcp integrate so well to make the ai we currently have that much better.

what's next for clovis

thinking much, much bigger outside of the scope of just messaging and emails; an idea like clovis could span further onto things like how you interact on social media, or even through a vocal medium. the idea is to not be uncanny or scary about it, but instead to make the machines that we use everyday a bit more like us.

Built With

• fastmcp
• ngrok
• poke.co
• python