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you could for example create a skill to access your database for testing purposes and pass in your tables specifications so that the agent can easily retrieve data for you on the fly.

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I made a small mcp script for database with 3 tools:

- listTables

- getTableSchema

- executeQuery (blocks destructive queries like anything containing DROP, DELETE, etc..)

I wouldn't trust a textual instructions to prevent LLMs from dropping a table.

That's why I give the LLM a readonly connection

This is much better than MCP, which also stuffs every session's precious context with potentially irrelevant instructions.

They could just make mcps dynamically loaded in the same way no?

It is still worse as it consumes more context giving instructions for custom tooling whereas the LLM already understands how to connect to and query a read-only SQL service with standard tools

Oooooo, woah, I didn't really "get it" thanks for spelling it out a bit, just thought of some crazy cool experiments I can run if that is true.

it’s also for (typically) longer context you don’t always want the agent to have in its context. if you always want it in context, use rules (memories)

but if it’s something more involved or less frequently used (perhaps some debugging methodology, or designing new data schemas) skills are probably a good fit

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