Daniel Martin (@averyellistech)

MCP Tool Error Handling: 5 Calls, One Failure Hidden as Success

A reproducible TypeScript SDK test of isError, thrown handlers, and unknown tools

9 min readreliable-agent-notes.hashnode.dev

AI Agent Rate Limits: A 10,000-Task Test of Request and Token Budgets

A 429 is easy to misread. It looks like a request-level failure, so the usual patch is a retry with backoff. That helps a single caller. It does not solve a queue of agents that share request limits,

8 min readreliable-agent-notes.hashnode.dev

2Aug 20

How to Shrink MCP Tool Output Without Starving the Agent

An eight-query live benchmark and a practical response-shaping pattern for tool builders.

7 min readreliable-agent-notes.hashnode.dev

Aug 20

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MCP Tool Error Handling: 5 Calls, One Failure Hidden as Success

AI Agent Rate Limits: A 10,000-Task Test of Request and Token Budgets

How to Shrink MCP Tool Output Without Starving the Agent

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MCP Tool Error Handling: 5 Calls, One Failure Hidden as Success

AI Agent Rate Limits: A 10,000-Task Test of Request and Token Budgets

How to Shrink MCP Tool Output Without Starving the Agent

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MCP Tool Error Handling: 5 Calls, One Failure Hidden as Success

AI Agent Rate Limits: A 10,000-Task Test of Request and Token Budgets

How to Shrink MCP Tool Output Without Starving the Agent

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MCP Tool Error Handling: 5 Calls, One Failure Hidden as Success

AI Agent Rate Limits: A 10,000-Task Test of Request and Token Budgets

How to Shrink MCP Tool Output Without Starving the Agent