The shelftell-your-agent

Tell your agent: one address makes it a car expert.

One string added to an assistant’s connectors, apis.vin/mcp, and the same car question comes back with evidence.

What the film shows.

Every fact on screen is real.

Ask your AI assistant a car question and you get answer-shaped noise: fluent, sourceless, unverifiable. This film adds one string to the assistant’s connectors, apis.vin/mcp, and asks again. No code anywhere in the film. That’s the point.

The connector is keyless: three tools, search, fetch, exec, and the whole technical act takes about eight seconds. Then the same question walks the doors: tool calls on the wire as real MCP JSON, doors answering with evidence, every answer typed; OK, empty, blocked, offer. One connector, different askers: a consumer prices a car, a dealer runs the counter, an analyst decodes a fleet, a creator checks a shelf.

The addresses the film names.

Each one answers at its own address.

Data room.

The source copy posts on request.

  • Source copyThe mp4 finals, held privately by Vin; posted on request.
  • The film aboveThe public copy, on Vin’s channel: a privacy-enhanced embed (youtube-nocookie.com), no cookies until play.

For the agent you send.

The agent reads the same record you do.

Same two routes, three representations: the numbers never differ between them.

Three representationsvideos.vin
1curl https://videos.vin/ -H 'accept: text/markdown'
2 # the markdown twin of this page
3curl https://videos.vin/{VIN} -H 'accept: application/json'
4 # the record as typed evidence objects
5curl https://videos.vin/{VIN} -H 'accept: text/markdown'
6 # the record's markdown twin
On this host
  • Motionsb2aThe buyer is an agent: no human leaf; discover, bind, pay, worst-case cost posted before the call
  • One MCP serverapis.vin/mcp serves the whole platform: every door’s tools in one server, each result carrying its door’s URL.
  • AttributionX-Client-Type: html | md | json | mcp names which reader arrived; it never changes the record.
  • The gateNo gate on this door's two routes: keyless reads, no account. Gated actions elsewhere return a typed OFFER or a NEEDS_HUMAN handoff, never a dead end.