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The agent did not fail, the client did: 90 logged MCP trials and a validator that ate the calls
A proxy on the MCP stdio pipe caught one client killing most of its own tool calls before they reached the server. On the wire it looked exactly like a weak model.
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Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption30
- Hype gap−18
- Incentives28
- Confidence62