Equation 12 · Part 1 · Measuring Tool Protocols and the Model Context Protocol: Evidence, Benchmarks, and Uncertainty
Symbol bar t
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bar t 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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…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 is an editorial choice rather than a physical fact about the function. A recent controlled study of exactly this trade-off tested fourteen models from 1.5B to 32B…
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