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When Cursor's Agent Ignores the MCP Tool and Writes a Raw fetch

Quick answer: If your agent has a working MCP tool for an API but the model still hand-writes a fetch , the failure is usually one of three things: the tool's description did not make it the obvious choice, the tool failed once and the agent learned to route around it, or the request shape looked s…

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  1. 2026-11-02 07:21 · DEV Community — AI
    When Cursor's Agent Ignores the MCP Tool and Writes a Raw fetch

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