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How to write tool descriptions for AI agents

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Tool descriptions for AI agents are the part of an MCP server that most people knock out in ten seconds. One sentence, done, on to the interesting code. Yet that sentence decides whether the agent finds your tool at all, whether it calls it with sensible parameters and whether it recovers after an…

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  1. 2026-10-28 13:06 · DEV Community — AI
    How to write tool descriptions for AI agents

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