Too Many MCP Tools Make Agents Worse - Here’s How I Fixed It

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The Model Context Protocol made agent integrations much easier. By the time the model sees your actual task, it has already had to process system instructions, task instructions, previous tool outputs, tool descriptions, and tool schemas. Instead of surfacing every tool definition up front, it gives the model a smaller discovery interface first.

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