EDA team building MCP server for CAD tool asks: how many tools is too many?
Important_Earth6615 · reddit · 2026-09-19
An engineer in the EDA industry is building an MCP server for their company's CAD tool, but the tool can generate a huge number of tools. Merging them is an option, yet they worry about hallucination creeping in over time, and ask what the practical maximum tool count is for production use without blowing up the context.
The tool also exposes a Python API, and they're looking for a smart way to serve docs so the AI can fetch them on demand instead of bloating context. A hands-on question about agent tool design and context engineering in a real production setting.
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