Building awesome-health-mcp using OpenAI Codex

Hello! I am Health Kowshik and I am on an exploration of Model Context Protocol (MCP) 🤖 in the Health 🫀 space.

My interest in Health and MCPs took me on a look-out for an awesome list in this space. There are a lot of awesome lists out there, generic ones as well as related to health. But, I found only one awesome list at the intersection of Health and MCP. Rather than building this list the traditional way, I wanted to use Agents to assist me in curating and maintaining it. This turned out to be my first project with OpenAI Codex.

OpenAI Codex

Created an empty repository on GitGub, https://github.com/healthkowshik/awesome-health-mcp, cloned it and wrote Help me build this awesome list by identifying popular MCP servers in the Health space as the Codex prompt. Initial results were quite bad, had a few links which were HTTP 404 on GitHub and some poor quality results.

This is where I introduced the second file into my repository in AGENTS.md with my observations to improve the quality of results from the model. I detailed out guidelines, one by one providing examples when appropriate for the agent.

Reference: healthkowshik/awesome-health-mcp/blob/main/AGENTS.md

Automations 🤖

Next, I explored the Automations feature on Codex which was quite straight-forward to setup and a joy to see it run successfully in the background. Given I hadn't seen a worktree before, viewing the diff in my editor and committing did take a few minutes.

First Iteration 🧪

In about an hour or so, a couple of back-and-forth on Codex, I had a decent first list, some listings I knew from before and some new. 🎉 Over the next few days, I will have the Automation on Codex run and I will be updating the list accordingly. If you are interested in the intersection of Health & MCP do follow the repository for regular updates!

Reference: https://github.com/healthkowshik/awesome-health-mcp -- Curated list of awesome Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for health