Your LLM doesn't understand MCP — keeping the tool-call boundary clear makes agents easier to debug
gethackteam · x · 2026-09-17
A useful mental model for agent developers: the LLM never needs to "understand" MCP. It simply sees tool descriptions and emits a tool call; your application is what actually executes the call and returns the result to the model. Keeping that boundary crisp — model proposes, app executes — makes debugging agents far easier.
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