Ganatra: Server-Controlled Schemas in MCP Complicate Client-Side Customization
Soham Ganatra · ⚡️Composio: 10,000+ tools that evolve for Agents — Karan Vaidya and Soham Ganatra · Aug 4, 2025 · at 4:37
Soham Ganatra, co-founder of Composio, discusses developer experience constraints when building client applications using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
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“Some of the other things that we have observed is like, hey, maybe I want to sort of change the tool descriptions, but like in MCP, the tool descriptions are controlled by the server itself. And so essentially for me as a developer who's sort of using an MCP, To build on top, like messing around with tool descriptions or messing around with tool schemas becomes a very, let's just say, painful experience to actually do that.”
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