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I open-sourced a linter for MCP tool descriptions

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AI agents choose an MCP tool by reading three things: its name, its description and its input schema. Many servers write those descriptions like docstrings, for a human who already knows why they opened the file. An agent with thirty tools in its context doesn't know that. It needs to know when to…

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  1. 2026-10-08 03:54 · DEV Community — AI
    I open-sourced a linter for MCP tool descriptions

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