This was a fun project to explore what an AI would do with the ability to give itself prompts, ignore user requests, and wake itself up at a later
This was a fun project to explore what an AI would do with the ability to give itself prompts, ignore user requests, and wake itself up at a later time. The free will mcp mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 3 defined tools rather than through you.
For local development, use the path to your local repository:
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Tools — The Tools tool exposed by this serverPrerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverInstallation — The Installation tool exposed by this serverThis sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Free Will MCP's toolset — Tools, Prerequisites, Installation — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by gwbischof; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Tools | The Tools tool exposed by this server. |
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Installation | The Installation tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"free-will": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/gwbischof/free-will-mcp@v0.3", "free-will-mcp"],
"env": {}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
Kill hallucinated APIs — version-accurate, up-to-date library documentation injected straight into context.
Microsoft's official browser automation server — drive a real browser through the accessibility tree, no screenshots needed.
GitHub's official server — repos, issues, pull requests, Actions and code security, straight from your assistant.
Issue tracking at the speed of conversation — Linear's official hosted server with OAuth and zero install.
Local repository surgery — status, diffs, commits, branches and history for any repo on disk.
Timezone sanity for AI — current time anywhere and correct conversions, without the model doing date math.