e procrastinated in releasing.  Now it looks like it was
AI-enabled from the start.  It wasn't, but...</p>

<p>Second, what's really weird is the LLM plug-in model (MCP) really suits
Merliot Hub.  Writing the MCP Server code for Merliot Hub just kind of fell
out.  The hub already has an API, so mapping the API over to MCP tools was
straightforward.  The devices also have some APIs and hooks to generate
device-specific MCP tools, which is pretty cool, and it's generated from
metadata of the device so there w