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I open-sourced a linter for MCP tool descriptions
AI agents choose an MCP tool by reading three things: its name, its description and its input schema. Many servers write those descriptions like docstrings, for a human who already knows why they opened the file. An agent with thirty tools in its context doesn't know that. It needs to know when to use a tool, what comes back, and which lookalike to use instead.
Forecall's linter checks exactly that, and its code is now public under Apache-2.0: github.com/forecall/forecall-cli .
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