Equation 12 · Part 1 · How Tool Protocols and the Model Context Protocol Actually Work
Symbol o_t
What this part means
concatenated into the model’s context and fed straight back into with no protocol-level check on what it contains.
Its job in the formula
is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
The assumption is in that last term: is concatenated into the model’s context and fed straight back into with no protocol-level check on what it contains.
The passage around this formula
…to the server and back, exactly as described above; and 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: is concatenated into the model’s context and fed straight back into with no protocol-level check on what it contains. Whatever a tool returns becomes part of what the model reads next, on exactly the same footing as the user’s own words. Once that is stated plainly, the entire…
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