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pith:C7NZFU2E

pith:2026:C7NZFU2EALYVRY4B5SJTVLDNDG

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tool Descriptions Are Smelly! Towards Improving AI Agent Efficiency with Augmented MCP Tool Descriptions

Ahmed E. Hassan, Bram Adams, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Hao Li, Mohammed Mehedi Hasan

arxiv:2602.14878 v3 · 2026-02-16 · cs.SE · cs.ET

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First computed	2026-06-02T01:04:15.745200Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

17db92d34402f158e381ec933aac6d198ce145af410b1a6f6b80276b8ae1da39

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.14878 · arxiv_version: 2602.14878v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.14878 · pith_short_12: C7NZFU2EALYV · pith_short_16: C7NZFU2EALYVRY4B · pith_short_8: C7NZFU2E

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C7NZFU2EALYVRY4B5SJTVLDNDG \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 17db92d34402f158e381ec933aac6d198ce145af410b1a6f6b80276b8ae1da39

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.ET"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-16T16:10:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59cd67d395aa033f7a1a8b19b7f1165c2d2aef7aff349ffd581d44d12f7c10d4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.14878",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}