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Tool discovery

What does “Tool discovery” mean?

Tool discovery: Finding which tools are available and what arguments they accept before calling one.

Tool discovery visual guide: Finding which tools are available and what arguments they accept before calling one.
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What is an example of “Tool discovery”?

An MCP client requests a server's tool list at the start of a session.

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See also

Agent harnessTermAgent loopTermAgent tracingTermTool resultTermTool selectionTerm

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SubagentTermTool schemaTermStreamable HTTPTermStandard input and outputTermTool useTerm