MCP Quickstart for Engineering Teams

A practical MCP onboarding guide for teams: tool discovery, schema validation, and deterministic execution patterns.

What matters in practice

• Treat tool schemas as runtime contracts, not optional docs.
• Keep one continuity contract for all runtimes and teams.
• Track outcomes, not just incidents, to prove operational value.

Implementation checklist

1. Define stable session and handoff rules.
2. Instrument score, risk, and closure-rate signals.
3. Review results weekly and remove low-value loops.

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