Equation 8 · Part 1 · How Tool Protocols and the Model Context Protocol Actually Work
Symbol a_t
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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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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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… is the tool set most recently returned by tools/list , each member carrying its own schema; is the model, which is expected — but not forced by anything outside its own training — to emit a call whose name and arguments validate against some tool in ; is dispatch through the client 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…
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