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Understand the names you will hear when teams build agentic systems.
MCP Tool
An MCP tool is an executable capability exposed by an MCP server.
Think of it like
Think of MCP Tool as infrastructure glue: it does not replace the model, but helps applications connect pieces in a repeatable way.
Real life
Software frameworks such as MCP Tool package common patterns so teams do not rebuild everything from scratch.
SRE lens
query_metrics(service,window) can be an MCP tool.
Remember thisAn MCP tool is an executable capability exposed by an MCP server.