Ditching Enumerated APIs: Modem Shares MCP Server Engineering Practices
zeeg · x · 2026-07-31
The Modem team shared their experience building an MCP server. They avoided traditional get<object> tools, opting instead for a general-purpose searchmodem tool that efficiently retrieves data via natural language search.
Inspired by the Sentry and Cloudflare MCPs, this approach synthesizes data from various customer feedback sources, proving to be significantly more token-efficient.
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