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Why the FDE cares: context quality drives output quality
Explain the practical rule behind "Context quality drives output quality."
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Why the FDE cares: context quality drives output quality
An agent that can see the ticket, the design doc and the live error trace writes a far better fix than one guessing from the diff alone. MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. is the difference between autocomplete with extra steps and a teammate who actually read the context. Every server you connect is also a new trust boundary and a new data path, which is exactly why it has to be governed.
Every MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. server is both a context source and an attack surface. A connected server can pull untrusted content into the model's context (a prompt-injection vector) and it can be a data-egress path. 'Connect everything' is how you turn a productivity feature into a data-exfiltration channel. Treat MCP servers like the third-party integrations they are: scoped, reviewed, allowlisted.