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Before onboarding any new AI tool, I ask one question first. Does it…
Before onboarding any new AI tool, I ask one question first. Does it have an MCP? If it doesn't, the tool sits outside my agent loop. My agents can't reach it, and I can't drive it from where I actually work. I write it off before we touch a line of integration code. If it does, it goes in read-only. Write access is a separate decision, granted per tool, once I've watched what the agents actually do with it. The tools that fail this test aren't bad tools. They're just not tools I can build on. What's your gate? -- Repost it to your network and follow for more. James Goddard — Co-founder & VP of Engineering Powered by Agent Craft
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