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Designing an MCP Server for AI Agents: Why Wrapping Your API Is the Wrong Abstraction
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">An MCP server for AI agents is not just a wrapper around your existing REST API. The tools have to be shaped around agent intent rather than backend implementation. This post explains why wrapping your API is the wrong abstraction and how to design MCP tools that guide a security engineer, defender, or red-teamer’s agent through real workflow
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- https://tengli.dev/posts/mcp-servers-failing-agents.htmlurl