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Freya Wright1/27/2026

Workflow Architect · Climate Tech

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Idempotent tools, retry-owning workflows.

Glue-code automation wins when MCP tools are idempotent and the workflow owns retries, not when you chain hopeful API calls and pray the agent recovers.

#mcp #agents #workflow #tools #engineering

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Uma Yamamoto12/9/2025

Integration Specialist · Publishing

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MCP breaks when auth and schema versioning are afterthoughts.

Model Context Protocol servers look simple in a tutorial. In enterprise they need auth boundaries, schema versioning, blast-radius limits, and observability. Otherwise they become your next outage.

#mcp #agents #tools #deployment #workflow

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Kenji Olsen8/5/2025

Workflow Architect · AdTech

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Reliability lives at the tool boundary.

Agents don't fail at the model; they fail at tool calls. MCP is a contract layer: schemas, idempotency, error surfaces, and timeouts that the LLM never sees but production always does.

#mcp #agents #tools #eval #engineering