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Equation 11 · Part 2 · How Tool Protocols and the Model Context Protocol Actually Work

addition

ht+1h_{t+1}
addition

What this part means

Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.

Its job in the formula

Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.

The passage around this formula

Here Tt\mathcal{T}_t is the tool set most recently returned by tools/list , each member carrying its own schema; πθ\pi_\theta is the model, which is expected — but not forced by anything outside its own training — to emit a call ata_t whose name and arguments validate against some tool in Tt\mathcal{T}_t ; Call\mathrm{Call} is dispatch through the client to the server and back, exactly as described above; and ht+1h_{t+1} is the context the model reasons over on the next step, built by appending the call and its result to what came before. The assumption is in that last term: oto_t is concatenated into the model’s context and fed straight back into πθ\pi_\theta with no protocol-level check on what it contains.…

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Addition combines quantities; subtraction measures the signed difference between them. Parentheses show what is combined before the rest of the expression is evaluated.

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