Minowa MCP’s NightWatch Skills
Flexible methods to explore your health.
If you have Minowa’s HomeEdition installed you can log meds, metrics, and supplements. That’s your tabular timestamped data. There’s another sort of data the system will keep for you - documents. This was originally intended to hold things you get from your doctor and there’s even a fax/send receive module for the old school practices that still work that way to this day.
While there is some use to being able to visually scroll a log of what’s happened, the whole goal with this is to enable an LLM to assist you. Minowa’s systems come with a Model Context Protocol server, a tool that provides AI friendly access to your data. While this is good, it does provide some guardrails for the AI, more was needed.
So we just released NightWatch Skills, a package of methods for Claude Desktop developed alongside the MCP server, that are built to help you focus ON you, instead of some complex new piece of software. You just install the Skills, connect to the MCP server, and you can get the AI to perform common tasks. The first three include:
Intake Interview - get the system configured for your needs.
Episode Analysis Report - detailed examination of events in a small timeframe.
Scored Sleep Signature - a daily analysis of your Garmin tracker sleep report.
Since these are just Skills, anyone using Claude Desktop can have the system create a new one for repetitive tasks. There will no doubt be many more of these in the repository as we continue to explore what’s possible.
As the lead developer I’m also the guinea pig in chief. And my chief life complaint is that I do not sleep like a normal adult. Here’s an excellent example of why Minowa is needed for those of us wrestling with complex issues. Garmin thinks I was asleep from midnight to 5:30 AM based on heart rate and activity, with one potty break around 0200. Thanks to the correlation capability I can tell that first two hours wasn’t restful, just look at the blue stress graph. And thanks to logging I know what supplements I took before bed, and which remedy I resorted to there right after the potty break.
Have you ever read an article about how having a pet is good for you? Here’s some warm, fluffy data to support that. The flat red heart rate line shows when I was asleep, minus a brief excursion to close the house up and feed my deskpet at sunrise.
Then at 7:14 AM she plants herself on me for 47 minutes. Heart rate drops, stress plummets, and this sets me up for some much needed deep sleep.
Conclusion:
This software has evolved in different directions several times in the year since its creation. We are headed for a niche that is difficult to support properly, and for which I have found no competing tools. The next big advance will be putting the document feature to work, and that should come as soon as Monday or Tuesday.
