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Tool Descriptions Are the Contract

This series started with a claim: MCP and REST are two doors into the same kitchen. Three posts later, the comments have pushed the argument down to its foundation.

  • Tool descriptions act as the API contract in MCP servers.
  • Descriptions appear three times across different files and formats.
  • A good description should state what the tool does, when to call it, and where values come from.

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