Go on Work In Progress

Graph in our pocket

Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

My day job is being a Product Manager. I spend time thinking about products and on the odd occasion I get to write code that helps explore those thoughts. It was during one of those moments that I got annoyed.

I’ve been learning about Go Interfaces and wanted to write code to land my understanding before carrying on with the book. The Go Programming Language, if you’re curious — worth it

Aura API Go client

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A Go client for Aura API

Over the last few weeks I’ve worked on creating a wrapper around the Aura API for use with Go. This is not wholly my own work; I’ve lifted the concept of using structs to model API request / responses from our Neo4j Labs Terraform Provider and embraced assistance from Claude to explore potential ideas, write tests and direct me when I got stuck.

The Aura CLient ( I’m not that great with naming ) is ready for use - mostly. Did I mention that I’m a hobby coder ?

MCP for Aura API - List instances

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

MCP for Aura API - List instances

The work from my first step puts me in a positon to build the first tool - list instances. This MCP tool will

Get a list of instances
Obtain a summary set of data for each one
Return the response as a JSON document to the LLM / Agent

All that is need is to write the tool handler and spec. Lets get into that

Getting ready

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

MCP 4 Aura API - taking the first step

As mentioned in my previous post, I’m basing my MCP for Aura API on the existing MCP for Neo4j. This post is all about stripping that down to get ready to then start writing the code I actually want.

Declutering

After forking MCP for Neo4j and looking over the code, I now have this list of features that will not be needed and can be removed

PM tries to write MCP to control Aura infrastructure

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Jumping on the MCP bandwagon

I’ve been learning Go over the last few months ( Its not a career change, just a desire to learn something new ). I’m now able do a pretty decent “Hello World”

I’ve also had the honour of working with some of Neo4j engineers to create and release MCP for Neo4j - which is written in Go - and proven to be popular.

It’s that now would be a good moment to sup from the trough of MCP success and see if my Go is suffiicent to allow me to fork MCP for Neo4j and modify it to provide a LLM tools to manage Aura infrastructure.