> modern MCP clients do smart tool search that obviates the entire "I am sending the full list of tools back and forth" mode of operation
How, "Dynamic Tool Discovery"? Has this been codified anywhere? I've only see somewhat hacky implementations of this idea
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...
Or are you talking about the pressure being on the client/harnesses as in,
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-us...