Civil Pipeline #3: 6 SEQ council contract registers just went live for the first time -- Brisbane, Gold Coast, Logan, Moreton Bay, Ipswich, Scenic Rim.
14 council · 11 federal · 2 TMR tenders this week.
https://t.co/AwPpIsp1YG
Fortnight wrap: Studio is now the MCP client.
20 tools → 4. 1,581 lines deleted. Auth bypass replaced with a proper role. CI loop cut from 20 min to 5.
Also: ask about civil contracts in QLD and get live awarded contract data. Public, no setup needed.
https://t.co/OgEKhvqUJC
1/ Australia is the only developed country where every state legally requires contract awards to be public, and not one requires them to be machine-readable.
27 EU states do it. UK and Ukraine do it. Even Moldova and Nigeria do it.
Zero Australian states.
8/ Full piece:
https://t.co/XtaQrjADdO
Repo:
https://t.co/nq2KqP6upP
Contributors very welcome, especially for SA + QLD QTenders (both need a Playwright driver).
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6 months ago there was no way to render a real interactive dashboard inside an AI chat. You got text. Maybe markdown.
That changed in January.
A short thread on what MCP Apps are, who has adopted them, and why we're shipping our project report on them first.
@opengovpart@aeyakuze@danielschuman The same challenge exists in Australian civil infrastructure -- procurement data is technically public but practically inaccessible. We're building on top of AusTender + state TMR disclosures to make it actually usable. Persistence + open data standards matter here too. #OpenGov
@QldGov Great to see the B2N Rail Upgrade hit detailed design -- $550M on the North Coast Line, $390M federal. GHD is contract admin, KBR on road interfaces. Construction tender isn't on the TMR works-to-tender register yet. When can the market expect it?
Detailed designs for Stage 1 of the Beerburrum to Nambour Rail Upgrade have been released, marking another milestone for the major Sunshine Coast rail project aimed at improving passenger and freight services along the North Coast Line.
https://t.co/k1YiNw3p8q
Private MCP servers 🤝 OpenAI products
Your team can keep MCP servers inside your network while ChatGPT, Codex, and the Responses API connect through outbound-only HTTPS.
🔗 https://t.co/UVq0KpT0km
Civil Pipeline #002 is live - au-procurement v0.3.0 now powers all contract award intel on the platform. 9 jurisdictions, one API call. Gateway Motorway CPA ($1.22B), 7 new Defence ATMs, DHA Nirimba closes tomorrow, severe weather SEQ this week.
https://t.co/2yCnyR5ypN
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Once @AnthropicAI ships the fix, we'll publish a plain URL you can paste into "Add custom connector" and this installer becomes optional.
Until then, the one-liner is the reliable path. Takes 30 seconds. Happy to help if you hit anything. [email protected]
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If you've tried adding Demiton (or any custom MCP server) to Claude Desktop via "Add custom connector" and got nowhere, it's not you. There's a confirmed bug in Claude Desktop's OAuth flow. Here's what's happening and how to fix it now. 🧵
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We built a one-line installer so you don't have to edit config files manually.
macOS / Linux:
curl -fsSL https://t.co/FD6B5CJYQk | bash
Windows:
irm https://t.co/Ujk2XMXTrC | iex
https://t.co/VISDrrcPk7