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Understand the names you will hear when teams build agentic systems.
Capability Discovery
Capability discovery lets a client learn what tools, resources or prompts a server provides.
Think of it like
Think of Capability Discovery as infrastructure glue: it does not replace the model, but helps applications connect pieces in a repeatable way.
Real life
Software frameworks such as Capability Discovery package common patterns so teams do not rebuild everything from scratch.
SRE lens
An agent should only call capabilities the connected server actually exposes.
Remember thisCapability discovery lets a client learn what tools, resources or prompts a server provides.