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Public story · 2026-02-17 · source-backed
Phil Schmid (Hugging Face) codifies six MCP server design patterns: Outcomes Over Operations (design around agent goals, not API endpoints), Flatten Arguments (agents hallucinate nested dicts 40%+ of the time), Instructions Are Context (rich docstrings explain when/how to use each tool), Curate Ruthlessly (5-15 tools per server), Name for Discovery, and Paginate Everything.
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