Tip: Cloudflare's 2-Tool MCP Pattern — Replace Per-Endpoint Tooling with search() + execute()

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Cloudflare's Code Mode demonstrates a reusable pattern for MCP server design: instead of defining one tool per API endpoint (which explodes token budgets), expose just search() for discovery and execute() for running generated code against the OpenAPI spec inside a sandbox. The execute() tool handles pagination, conditional logic, and chained calls in a single cycle. Any team exposing large APIs via MCP can adopt this pattern.