Beyond basic tools, what advanced MCP patterns matter: resources, prompts, sampling, and roots?

Most people know MCP exposes tools. The deeper signal is the full primitive set (resources, prompts, sampling, roots) and the patterns: server composition, sampling for nested LLM calls, and scoping access safely.

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Agent Engineering·The ecosystem you will be asked aboutPremium13mStandardising how an agent reaches its toolsBefore a protocol layer existed, every team wrote the same adapter between their agent and every tool it used, N times over. What a tool protocol standardises, what it deliberately does not, and why a shared tool surface moves the trust problem rather than solving it.

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