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Chapter 07
Expose Safe MCP Tools and Custom Skills
Give an agent new capabilities without giving it your whole machine.
What you will be able to do: You can expose a narrowly scoped tool, validate its input, and keep secrets on the server side.
Tools you will use
MCPJSON SchemaSkills
Your Day 1 checklist
- 1Choose the smallest useful tool surface
- 2Define and validate the tool input schema
- 3Keep credentials out of tool responses
- 4Write a skill with an explicit completion test
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