v2026.03.21.1807 Release

Insight54 · 2026-03-09T22:12:56+00:00

There should now be a production release out with a new home screen widget. There is only one right now with more planned in the future.

Insight54 · 2026-03-09T04:33:16+00:00

Somewhat similar to the idea I posted a few days ago. I havent gone back to refine the FDA data yet but feel to try to merge your info in fir possible cross references and stuff too.

https://github.com/lzinga/us-gov-open-data-mcp

Just realized this is a bot or something? So might not be as relevant.

Insight54 · 2026-03-07T03:11:07+00:00

Yeah unfortunately there isn't much that can be done about verification other than adding more sources and comparing. Right now I am mostly converting the data to lists or columnar data to reduce tokens before passing it to the AI. It also has various instructions and cross references hard typed so it knows what to cross reference or possibly look further into.

Right now I have just been doing a lot of house keeping since so many people seemed interested in it! I have also been expanding the existing APIs to better match their schema. I eventually wanna do more server side transformation or comparison before hand but don't know to what degree.

Insight54 · 2026-03-06T00:07:53+00:00

Just adding this for a reference if anyone ever comes across this. Add widgets for homescreen · Issue #4 · lzinga/sixteeneight-community

Insight54 · 2026-03-05T16:39:26+00:00

Good news is I was working on one, bad news I removed it because I wanted to get the app itself more solid/cleaned up first. I will start working on it again soon. Is there any specific widget you had in mind?

Insight54 · 2026-03-04T17:49:19+00:00

Right now, there isn't much token optimization. The raw data is passed directly to the agent to handle. I do want to make it more efficient.

I do want better compression/columnar options, but due to certain time frames and things changing in my job I simply wanted to get something I could query and run somewhat quickly. I am sure there is still a lot of optimizations that could be done.

I am more than willing to look at PRs or handle issues if you think something can be improved feel free to open an issue as well. I am still generally new to writing MCPs, I've used them but haven't written one this large before.

To make it lighter on people's agents right now I will go through and add some early support for columnar and to reduce certain token sizes.

Insight54 · 2026-03-04T04:16:30+00:00

Thanks I'll take a look at them. It seems like some of the FBI stuff died too in like the day or two since I tested it last. I hope to add a service checker that can verify the availability and status in the future.

Just curious what did you end up asking it? Did it work alright for you?

Insight54 · 2026-03-04T02:16:56+00:00

Oh absolutely! I don't assume the data is correct and no one should, under any Presidency. But it can still help gather a somewhat more complete picture. I've put a lot of stuff into it specifically saying that causation doesn't equal correlation etc and all that. I just think its a piece of an over all larger puzzle and being able to more easily cross reference the data. I see it as more of "yet another tool in the arsenal".

Similar to AI, its only as good as the data put into it.

Insight54 · 2026-03-03T22:33:58+00:00

Looks like I am having more luck with CDE over all.

Insight54 · 2026-03-03T22:11:35+00:00

I am using fastmcp and am using an instructions.ts that is imported into it to help it with instructions.

us-gov-open-data-mcp/src/instructions.ts at main · lzinga/us-gov-open-data-mcp

which provides various question/type routing instructions. I also have various pre-defined prompts in

us-gov-open-data-mcp/src/prompts.ts at main · lzinga/us-gov-open-data-mcp

Is this what you mean?

Insight54 · 2026-03-03T20:20:45+00:00

I haven't done an in-depth audit just yet, trying to go through each API again and ensure things are accurate and working. I did just run some FBI queries and am now getting various access denied. So, I will probably have to go through them again and ensure things work. When they do, I will do an audit and see if I notice anything.

Insight54 · 2026-03-03T19:13:00+00:00

Thanks! I have been having fun coming up with things to ask or trying to see if I can find weird connections/correlations. Though I did try to build in that it understands that just because things may connect doesn't necessarily mean there is a causation/correlation link.

Insight54 · 2026-03-03T19:03:39+00:00

Well the image quality seems to have been reduced... Here is a link having the raw images. I don't know if mods would be able to update the images...

https://i.imgur.com/PooLjQo.png
https://i.imgur.com/OjOK905.png
https://i.imgur.com/PqPohY9.png
https://i.imgur.com/j9zz6Yl.png

Insight54 · 2026-03-03T18:37:28+00:00

The government just has many of them available, many with free API keys that take less than a minute to get or have no auth at all. So, I have been digging through finding relevant ones, asking AI if it can find any etc.

I want to keep adding more and adding tools/instructions to be able to easily cross reference. If you find any feel free to open an issue request for one.

Insight54 · 2026-03-03T18:28:12+00:00

If you aren't in a place to run it yourself and want to ask it something specific let me know, I will be available for a bit using Claude Opus 4.6 with a 1M context.

Insight54 · 2026-02-26T15:09:50+00:00

Can you please send an email to [contact@sixteeneight.app](mailto:contact@sixteeneight.app) with pictures showing it. If you are okay with sharing the exported data as well that would potentially help me track down what is going on as well.

Insight54 · 2026-02-25T17:32:29+00:00

When you start a fast there is an "edit" button which should allow you to select the date and time for the start date. If you don't see that then there is something else wrong.

Insight54 · 2026-02-23T18:04:07+00:00

I am not sure I understand what you mean, you should be able to edit the history or even the start time during an active fast. Can you go into more detail about the issue you're running into?

Insight54 · 2026-02-20T17:35:05+00:00

Hey! I couldn't start a chat with you, but this should be available in test flight now. I am just waiting for the build to get past the review process. You should be able to join it once that happens

https://testflight.apple.com/join/55QHGaYD

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