Can MCP Clients Decide What to Do After Failure? A Result-Only Actionability Audit
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Rishabh Mehan
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Rishabh Mehan
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MCP — The Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.
Why it matters
If you branch on MCPThe Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.Full definition → tool failures, isError plus typed fields will not tell you whether to retry, reauthenticate, fix an argument, or switch tools. Recovery logic ends up interpreting prose, which is the fragile path.