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Engineering Tools as Capabilities

An MCP server exposes capabilities.

Examples:

Filesystem MCP​

Create File
Read File
Update File
Delete File

GitHub MCP​

Create Pull Request
Create Issue
Read Repository
Commit Changes

Documentation MCP​

Search Knowledge Base
Read Documentation
Retrieve Standards

Atomic Bomb MCP​

Create Atom
Create Molecule
Create Organism
Create Domain
Create Service
Create State
Create Model

Each capability becomes available to the AI.

Mini Exercise​

List three capabilities an AI would need to build a front-end feature predictably.

Example​

  • generate approved structure
  • validate output against standards
  • run tests for the generated feature