Remote MCP tools that run long: what your agent actually gets back
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Most MCP demos show a tool that answers in a second. Real tools often don't: a scraper, a crawl or a report job can take minutes. We build web scrapers on Apify, so this is a problem we run into daily. We wanted to know what an agent actually receives when a remote MCP tool runs longer than one cal…
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- 2026-10-02 17:22 · DEV Community — AI
Remote MCP tools that run long: what your agent actually gets back