Cohere Labs releases ATE dataset of ~700K MCP tools to reveal what agents do
Cohere_Labs · x · 2026-09-03
Cohere Labs released the Agentic Task Ecosystem (ATE) dataset, cataloging nearly 700K tools from public MCP servers to study what developers are actually building AI agents to do.
Key points:
- The team argues for "measuring more and predicting less" about AI's impact on jobs.
- The signal: not what AI could do or is asked to do, but which tasks developers choose to automate.
- Their analysis suggests AI's impact on work depends on those choices, not just model capabilities.
- Dataset and blog are publicly available.
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