An infrastructure assistant can investigate a failure with a small set of observational tools. A Fly.io prototype exposed only application logs and status through MCPThe Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.Full definition →. In the reported incident, Anthropic's Claude identified unhealthy machines, then used a requested log inspection to connect an out-of-memory termination with a restart and subsequent recovery.
The useful mechanism was access to evidence in stages: status identified where to look, and logs supplied the event sequence. The tools did not expose repair actions. This was one reported diagnosis, illustrating a bounded investigation workflow rather than establishing general diagnostic accuracy.
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MCP — The Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.
