Your MCP Server Is Only as Good as Its Docstrings
I built a college football data MCP server that connects Claude to CollegeFootballData.com, a free API with deep historical stats, advanced metrics, recruiting data, and play-by-play going back decades. Its data goes beyond what frontier AI models are trained on. Getting it working was straightforward — there’s a gofastmcp.com tutorial for that. Getting Claude to use it well required understanding something that’s easy to overlook: the key interface between an LLM and a tool is the docstring. ...