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How to Write MCP Tool Descriptions That AI Agents Actually Understand

Connecting an AI assistant to your API is the easy part. Getting it to pick the right tool, with the right inputs, at the right moment is where most MCP servers fall short. The difference is almost never the code. It is the words: tool names, descriptions and instructions. An assistant has no intui…

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  1. 2026-11-14 15:40 · DEV Community — AI
    How to Write MCP Tool Descriptions That AI Agents Actually Understand

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