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Dense Slides: The State of MCP observability: Observable.tools — Alex Volkov and Benjamin Eckel, W&B and Dylibso

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The State of MCP observability: Observable.tools — Alex Volkov and Benjamin Eckel, W&B and Dylibso

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This deck is slide-only. The existing captured video frame set supplies candidate frames, then local OpenCV rejects sponsor/title/speaker-only frames, crops visible slide surfaces, deduplicates, and saves the cropped slide images.

Cropped Visible Slides

• Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
• AI slide classifier: content_slide confidence 0.97
• Text source: agent_vision.

Slide text:

https://observable.tools

Observable Tools

Let's make MCP tools transparent and observable!

Classification audit: raw/sources/slide-ai-classification/dense/Lcqat4iP_lE/audit.json