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I think it is now possible to do one curl to call an MCP tool, instead of three previously.
I tried MCP before but the models still needed a lot of hand-holding to be able to use the MCP tools effectively, and I found that just giving them REST endpoints with good examples and descriptions in the OpenAPI/Swagger docs seems to be a better approach. They can explore the REST endpoints easily with curl to get a hang of them.
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- I think it is now possible to do one curl to call an MCP tool, instead of three previously.
I tried MCP before but the models still needed a lot of hand-holding to be able to use the MCP tools effectively, and I found that just giving them REST endpoints with good examples and descriptions in the OpenAPI/Swagger docs seems to be a better approach. They can explore the REST endpoints easily with curl to get a hang of them.