Equation 11 · Part 1 · Measuring Tool Protocols and the Model Context Protocol: Evidence, Benchmarks, and Uncertainty
Symbol n_max
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ax 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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Under a fixed context budget B , the largest catalogue that fits is roughly (B - )/ . The model is a reasonable first approximation, and it is also the assumption a tenfold per-tool variance directly undermines: is not a constant of the tool, it is a property of how verbosely that tool’s schema and description happen to be written, which…
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