MCP Cookbook: 10 recipes to supercharge agent tool-use

# MCP Cookbook: 10 recipes to supercharge agent tool-use A pragmatic set of MCP patterns you can copy‑paste into your stack. ## 1) Read config securely - Server: `secrets` → `get(key)` with scopes per env. ## 2) Fetch docs and summarize - Chain: `search_docs` → `get_page` → `summarize_chunked`. ## 3) Safe Git commit pipeline - `open_file` → `apply_patch` → `commit` → `push` with confirmations. ## 4) Ticket lifecycle - `create_ticket` → `update_ticket` → `add_comment` with idempotence keys. ## 5) SQL with guardrails - `run_sql` with approved schemas and readonly by default. ## 6) Batch export with streaming - Emit progress events; support resume with cursors. ## 7) Content generation workflow - `generate_draft` → `lint` → `insert_assets` → `publish`. ## 8) Incident macros - `page_oncall` → `fetch_logs` → `open_problem_ticket`. ## 9) Policy gates - Enforce budgets, timeouts, and approvals per tool. ## 10) Telemetry everywhere - Correlate requests; classify errors (retryable/auth/validation). --- These recipes favor explicit capabilities, small blast radius, and strong visibility—so you can move fast without breaking prod.