GitHub MCP maintainer demos Pi-MCP fork with progressive disclosure and tool-call checkpoints
marlene_zw · x · 2026-09-17
At AGNTCON + MCPCon, Sam — maintainer of GitHub's official MCP server and a newly minted MCP maintainer — demoed his fork of pidotdev called Pi-MCP:
- Progressive disclosure throughout, exposing capabilities on demand to manage context
- All tool calls pass through a checkpoint
- Skills can load tools
His talk "MCP doesn't have a context problem" drew a standing-room-only crowd.
Related event: GitHub MCP maintainer defends MCP: 12M weekly calls, no context problem(4 posts)→
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