Designing Composable Tools for Enterprise MCP: From Theory to Practice
The article discusses the importance of designing composable, skills-based tools for enterprise MCP (Multi-Channel Presence) implementations, rather than treating MCP as an
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Why it matters
Designing composable, skills-based tools is crucial for enterprise MCP implementations, as it simplifies the agent's workflow and improves the overall user experience.
Key Points
- 1Avoid the naïve approach of exposing existing APIs as MCP tools, which leads to slow, error-prone, and poor user experiences
- 2Design tools around user intent, not individual API calls, to simplify the agent's workflow
- 3Use business identifiers (e.g., guest email, room number) instead of system IDs in tool parameters
- 4Build idempotency into tool design to handle retries and enable saga pattern orchestration
- 5Coordinate state transitions atomically across multiple systems
Details
The article starts with a real-world scenario from a hotel management system, where a front desk employee needs to process a guest checkout, file a maintenance request, update inventory and availability, and route the request to the right maintenance team. The author contrasts the
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