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How many tools should an MCP server have?
Community description: If you maintain an MCP server, at some point you ask this. You've got twenty tools, you're about to...
Dev.to | Sep 14, 2026 | MCPulse
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I read the tool schemas of 4,951 public MCP servers to answer it. 87,146 tools, 270,487 parameters. It's whether a model can tell your tools apart. The measurement For every tool, I took the content words in its description and counted how many appear in no other tool's description on the same server. Then I split the corpus by how many tools each server publishes. Fewer tools per connection, more servers to maintain.
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