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The Problem: Multi-Tool Routing Nobody Talks About The Model Context Protocol has become the de facto standard for giving AI assistants access to external tools and data sources. Connect your CRM. ...

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The Problem: Multi-Tool Routing Nobody Talks About The Model Context Protocol has become the de facto standard for giving AI assistants access to external tools and data sources. Connect your CRM. Connect your analytics. Connect your file storage. In theory, a single AI assistant can now answer "How did last quarter's email campaign affect our Shopify revenue, and does our QuickBooks profit-loss reflect that?" by pulling from three different systems simultaneously. In practice, this is where most MCP implementations quietly fall apart. The challenge is not the protocol itself. MCP is well-designed. The challenge is routing: given a user's natural language question, which tools should be called, in what order, with what parameters, and how should the results be synthesized into a coherent answer? "The question isn't whether your MCP server can access twenty data sources. The question is whether it can figure out which three of those twenty actually matter for the question in front of it