LLMs sometimes fail on Clojure namespace conversion

[eneroth]

You have no idea how much I love clojure-mcp.

This is a common interaction between Claude and I:

I.e., I mention a namespace such as co.company.hello-world and it tries to search for a file named hello-world.clj. Ie., it doesn't understand how to convert namespaces to files.

Would it be an idea to give it a tool which just redirects to read file etc., but does the namespace conversion for it?

[bhauman]

So I think that we should auto-correct this mistake where we return the file as a result, along with a note of the actual file that is being presented.

This rarely happens to me but I am only using Opus. I also think there should be an explicit mention of this in the tool descriptions and the prompts.

[bhauman]

The reason I wouldn't make a tool for this is that keeping thing path-centric supports editing and bash usage... we wouldn't want to move things to being namespace-centric... I actually tried some experiments with that...

[eneroth]

Ah, that makes sense.

I also only use Opus though, I wonder why it fails constantly.

Maybe we have an unusual proliferation of namespaces with dashes in them.