MCP Events Could Cut Agent Idle Time Spent Waiting on Tool Calls
AccBalanced · x · 2026-10-03
Engineer kaslinfields notes that agents spend a lot of time idle, some of it waiting for MCP tool calls to return. MCP Events are interesting for improving active-vs-idle efficiency — e.g., streaming progress updates to the agent during a long-running tool call instead of blocking.
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