How I use Local MCP

I’d love for Claude or ChatGPT to answer questions like: What meetings am I not setting up that I really should be? or: Based on my activities since 9 May 2026, what should I blog about? or: Who in my professional life most deserves an unreasonable gesture? From data. My files, emails, calendar, contacts, transcripts, blogs, notes, code, browsing history, logs, random Markdown files I forgot I wrote. Hence, a Local MCP. My Local MCP server exposes one tool: bash. @mcp.tool() async def bash(commands: str, ctx: Context) -> str: """Runs multiline bash script.""" result = subprocess.run(commands, shell=True, executable="/bin/bash") return result.stdout + result.stderr That’s it. No vector database. No UI. No custom connectors. No “AI knowledge platform.” Just: run shell commands on my machine. I run this locally, expose it online (which is slightly scary), and give Claude and ChatGPT this prompt fragment: Local MCP runs bash and exposes: - ~/code/talks/README.md - talk transcripts, slides…