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Tool Descriptions Are the Contract
This series started with a claim: MCP and REST are two doors into the same kitchen. Three posts later, the comments have pushed the argument down to its foundation. One reader on dev.to said the useful test is whether both doors preserve the same auth, error, and idempotency behavior. Another warned about granularity drift and asked how anyone validates tool descriptions. Both are pointing at the same uncomfortable fact: in an MCP server, prose is load-bearing. The description decides whether th...
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