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MCP Server Patterns

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Design patterns for Model Context Protocol servers extending Claude capabilities through structured tool interfaces, resource exposure, and capability negotiation.

Harness Layers
Meta
Meta (principles / narrative / research)
Prompt
Prompt (templates / few-shot / system instructions)
Orchestration
Orchestration (chaining / routing / looping)
Integration
Integration (tools / RAG / external APIs)*
Guardrails
Guardrails (output validation / safety checks)
Memory
Memory (context / state / persistence)
Eval
Eval (testing / metrics / iteration)
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