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Is the goal to make a “universal MCP” that makes it easy to let MCP clients execute thousands of tools on a session by session basis? Or is it more focused on initial tool discovery and registration? If it’s the former, does the process add more latency between user taking action and tool getting executed?

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Yes it is the former. The value comes from its progressive guidance during a task, not just in the initial setup.

As for latency, we optimized for that. For examples, Strata automatically uses a direct, flat approach for simple cases. And we use less tokens compared to official MCP servers as well, as shown in the benchmark.

Isn't Microsoft going to eat your lunch with their "virtual tools" offering for high tool counts?

We tested our approaches with several thousand tools and it is working pretty well. Also we provide API access as well, so any developer can use this, not just on Microsoft or VS Code.

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