arXiv AI By Guanxing Chen, Sining Zhang, Haohuai He, Qiujie Lv, Yu-An Huang, Zhi-An Huang

ProbeID: Verifying MCP Tool Identity for LLM Agents under Registry Drift

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arXiv AI
Sep 12

What a Random Draw from the MCP Registry Contains, and What Tool-Use Benchmarks Contain Instead

The study examines the composition of a random sample from the Model Context Protocol (MCP) registry, revealing that only 48.8% of the 400 sampled npm/stdio servers successfully complete an initialization handshake, compared to 66.7% for a hand‑curated frame. Among the servers that run, there are no fatal JSON Schema violations across 2,766 advertised tools, but optional safety annotations vary widely, with a 58.8% omission rate in the random draw versus 41.5% in the curated set. The authors also compare MCP tool descriptions to two benchmark corpora, finding minimal near‑duplication in real MCP tools (2.8%) and significant repetition in synthetic datasets (up to 85.6%).

By Haseeb Mohammed Afsar
arXiv AI
Sep 17

AutoTuneBench: Trustworthy Measurement for Agent Auto-Tuning of LLM Serving Engines

AutoTuneBench introduces a trustworthy measurement protocol for evaluating how large language model agents auto‑tune GPU kernels and serving engines. The benchmark addresses four failure modes—strawman baselines, machine‑dependent timing, saturated tasks, and infrastructure defects—by enforcing code‑frozen protocols, database validation, anti‑cheat checks, pre‑registered comparisons, and external result anchoring. Using this protocol, the authors demonstrate that previously reported speedups are inflated, revealing more modest improvements across different engines and machines.

By Li Chen