A default MCP connection hands an agent 11 tools. None of my 23 Actors is one of them.
A default MCP connection hands an agent 11 tools. None of my 23 Actors is one of them. I have 23 audit Actors on the Apify Store . They all do a version of the same thing: take a public record, check whether what it still claims is true, and write the verdict into a dataset. I have also written six articles about what happens when an AI agent calls one of them through the Apify MCP server .…
A default connection to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server provides an agent with 11 tools, whereas the author's 23 Actors do not appear on the list. The author had written six articles assuming the agent would have access to this tool. The author discovered the issue by creating a connection with no parameters and finding that the server returned 11 tools, including a single Actor.
The remaining tools were provided by the server itself, not the Actors. While the server offers thousands of Actors, providing all of them as tools would exceed the context window of most clients. Instead, 11 tools are provided as a budget limit. The 23 Actors are reachable and functional, but they are not included in the default toolset.
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