Learn to separate search failures from answer failures, handle conflicting policies and test whether a knowledge assistant is grounded in authorized evidence.

A practical review sequence for connector provenance, credentials, network access, permissions, revocation and operational ownership.

Understand hosts, clients and servers, then ask the operational questions that an MCP compatibility claim does not answer.

Make agent integrations easier to choose, safer to execute and clearer to audit by designing tools around business tasks rather than raw endpoints.