Hacking Symbolic Algebra with Anthropic's MCP: A Wild West Adventure

This post details an experiment using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) to overcome LLMs' limitations in symbolic math. MCP lets LLMs call external tools. The author integrated an LLM with SymPy, a computer algebra system, to solve a damped harmonic oscillator equation. While the MCP ecosystem is rough around the edges and presents security risks (running locally!), the successful integration of these components highlights the potential of this approach. Combining LLMs with specialized tools like SymPy could revolutionize how we interact with complex mathematical computations.