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name: tai-ch111-testing-mcp-integrations
description: 'Apply chapter 111 of Testing AI, Testing MCP Integrations, as a workflow for evaluating AI and non-deterministic systems. Use for test planning, eval design, quality review, release evidence, examples, or coaching related to testing mcp integrations.'
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# Testing MCP Integrations

Skill name: `tai-ch111-testing-mcp-integrations`

Based on **Testing AI: Engineering Confidence in AI Systems** by **Jason Arbon**.

## Purpose

MCP turns tools, files, and services into model-accessible capabilities. That makes it a quality
and security boundary.

## Use This Workflow

- Identify the AI behavior or release decision being evaluated.
- Define realistic cases, slices, unacceptable outcomes, and evidence needed for confidence.
- Choose measurements that match the risk: rubric scores, samples, intervals, traces, human review, deterministic checks, or production monitors.
- Report uncertainty, severe failures, and decision impact instead of only a pass/fail result.

## Key Guidance

The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, gives AI systems a standardized way to discover and use
tools, resources, prompts, files, and services. That is powerful because it lets LLM-powered
products connect to real work. It is risky for the same reason. When a model can call a tool,
read a resource, or pass data into an external system, the test surface expands. The quality
question is no longer only whether the model wrote a good answer. It is whether the model
discovered the right capability, passed valid arguments, respected permissions, handled errors,
protected data, and produced a useful result.

## Apply The Approach

Create representative cases, score them with explicit criteria, review severe failures separately, report uncertainty, and connect the evidence to a concrete decision.

## Expert Notes

At expert level, MCP testing combines API contract tests, authorization tests, prompt-injection
tests, trace validation, schema fuzzing, tool-selection evals, and production monitoring. The
MCP layer should be boring, observable, and constrained.