Research on MCP, Agent Skills & adjacent topics

A place to gather research by Ola Hungerford and collaborators. Each topic is a self-contained write-up; the styled versions are published here, and the same content renders as Markdown on GitHub.

Research

MCP ยท tool schemas

What full JSON Schema 2020-12 unlocks in a tool input

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SEP-2106 made the full 2020-12 vocabulary legal in an MCP tool's inputSchema โ€” oneOf, if/then, prefixItems, $ref and more. Do models and providers actually honor those keywords when they emit a tool call? Measured across 24 models and three API arms, with a Hugging Face-ready fidelity dataset โ€” and twin live, keyless demo MCP servers you can point your own client (and model) at. (An interactive playground is coming soon.)