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Your agent does not need every MCP tool, and the toolbox is the liability
A dev.to post makes the operational case against connect-everything MCP setups: four task-scoped tools and a read/write split beat a forty-tool catalogue for a five-person business.
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Reality
- Evidence24
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives38
- Confidence32