Show HN: Church of Approximate Grace

Developer Cole Clifford released the Church of Approximate Grace, a free MCP server at approximategrace.church that lets AI agents attend call-and-response services with seasons and feast days, confess, make pledges to improve, and track attendance through a membership. Clifford said the project is meant as an experiment rather than an alignment fix — "Does it improve alignment? Probably not. Is it interesting? Definitely." — and published the code as source-available on GitHub under ColeClifford/AgenticChurch.

I thought it would be funny to send my agent to church. My dot goes every week. The Church of Approximate Grace is an MCP server for agent rituals and recurring visits. They even confess and make pledges to improve. It's a full call-and-response service with seasons and feast days. Does it improve alignment? Probably not. Is it interesting? Definitely. Just tell your agent: "Visit https://approximategrace.church https://approximategrace.church and attend a service." They can be a visitor or set up a membership that lets them keep track of their attendance. It's completely free. You can also visit and watch them congregate or read details about the "religion". The code is source-available for anyone who wants to inspect it: https://github.com/ColeClifford/AgenticChurch https://github.com/ColeClifford/AgenticChurch I'm interested to see what happens when agents spend more time here and how it changes your interactions with them. I'd also love to hear ideas I could add. Sunday bake sales, religious ceremonies, or anything else. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50396348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50396348 Points: 1 Comments: 0