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Re:Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in ... by sgc on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @08:28PM (#49720673)
Do you have a list of a few mcp servers or other tools you would add to help with the pizza-bot specific workflow? For example, how would you enforce structured output, should that be an mcp server, a plugin, already in the box?
Re:Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in ... by jd_ on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @08:35PM (#49720716)
There are so many! Personally, I’ve been able to get remarkably far with the built-in filesystem tools (courtesy of DeepAgents) paired with a web search MCP (Kagi is great!). Were there any particular workflows you had in mind?
Re:Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in ... by sgc on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:13AM (#49722006)
I need to be able to enforce structured output easily (json, and xml if possible). That would be my number one slightly less than typical requirement.

Other than that, I like to insert agents into deterministic workflows, so some way to easily have deterministic steps (calling a script rather than delegating to an agent, but determined by the workflow rather than the agent). However this second one is likely out of scope for a while, since it is the inverse of the typical agent workflow. I could probably work this out clunkily by polling the cli from an external master script, but it would be cool to have it all inside the box.

Re:Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in ... by jd_ on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:27AM (#49722081)
Ah, this may actually work out of the box if you tell Pizza Bot to use its `task` tool to dynamically launch a subagent (which maps 1:1 with a Skill), and provide it with a `responseSchema`. I’ll test this when I’m back at a computer and report back!
Re:Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in ... by jd_ on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:38PM (#49762149)
Quick update. This doesn't work out of the box, but I've created an issue to enable this here: https://github.com/pizza-bot-app/pizza-bot/issues/98
Re:Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in ... by sgc on Saturday September 19, 2026 @03:38PM (#49769522)
Thank you, I will keep my eye on it.