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Tool schema design

The practice of writing tool names, descriptions and parameter definitions that are read directly by machine consumers rather than by human developers.

Current clusters

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Past thirty tools, MCP servers' tool descriptions start to blur together

A scan of 4,951 public MCP servers and 87,146 tools finds description overlap climbing with tool count, until nearly one tool in three on the biggest servers has no word its siblings do not also use. The study measured text; it did not measure model choices.

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Reality

Evidence66
Adoption30
Hype gap+15
Incentives70
Confidence58