Progressive Disclosure for MCP - A Skill-Driven Approach in Keen Code
October 21, 2026
While building Keen Code, my terminal-based coding agent written in Go, I chose to integrate MCP tools through its existing skills system. A basic MCP integration connects to a server, fetches its tools, and makes their definitions available to the language model. A server may expose dozens or hundreds of tools, each with a name, description, and JSON schema. Connecting several servers can add thousands of tokens of definitions to the model's initial context.
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