Bottom-up preparation :)

- Plate — your product

- Pancake 1 — the model

- Syrup #1 — how the model emits the tool call (Harmony, JSON, XML-ish). Different flavor at every table.

- Pancake 2 — the client/agent

- Syrup #2 — MCP. Same brand at every table, finally.

- Pancake 3 — the MCP server (the tool)

Two syrups. MCP standardized the top one. The bottom one is still BYO at every table. That's the article. What do you think about that?