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markerzlast Sunday at 5:12 PM1 replyview on HN

MCPs are the most basic solution possible. Shoving the tool definitions into a vector store and having a subagent search for relevant tools, then another subagent to run the tools would greatly reduce impact on context. I think it’d work in theory, but it’s so annoying to have to do something like this. We’re still in a world where we have some building blocks rather than full fledged toolboxes.


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dragonwriterlast Sunday at 5:21 PM

> MCPs are the most basic solution possible. Shoving the tool definitions into a vector store and having a subagent search for relevant tools, then another subagent to run the tools would greatly reduce impact on context.

That's a toolchain design approach that is independent of MCPs. A toolchain using MCP could do that and there would be no need for any special support in the protocol.