cd /news/ai-agents/hints-and-mcp-servers · home topics ai-agents article
[ARTICLE · art-88872] src=dotnetperls.com ↗ pub= topic=ai-agents verified=true sentiment=· neutral

Hints and MCP Servers

A developer is building a customer service MCP server that uses an LLM (such as LFM2.5-2.6B-Q4_K_M.gguf in llama-cpp) to parse natural language requests and provide hints to the view_file tool, improving search results by distinguishing tutorials from blog posts.

read1 min views1 publishedAug 5, 2026

I am making some sort of customer service MCP server for my own use. I can tell an LLM (such as LFM2.5-2.6B-Q4_K_M.gguf

in llama-cpp

) what I want, and it will do it for me. I have been thinking for ways for an AI agent to convey to the MCP server what the user is talking about.

Basically, if the user says something like "view tutorial XYZ", the AI agent needs to provide a hint

about what the person is asking about. The view_file

tool has an optional hint

parameter, and the tool description says to use hint

"t" when the user is talking about tutorials.

Then in the Rust MCP server, the code can use the hint

(alongside the name

) and use it to help find the appropriate page. So if the user is talking about tutorials, it will return a page that more closely matches tutorials rather than blog posts.

The goal of the LLM is to parse in natural language and provide my own functions (like view_file

) with information about what the user was talking about. The hint

can give better results than just a name

; having the LLM help determine the context of the request is useful.

── more in #ai-agents 4 stories · sorted by recency
── more on @mcp 3 stories trending now
sponsored brought to you by zahid.host 4,200+ EU-deployed projects
reading about agents? ship yours in a single git push.

Run your AI side-project on zahid.host

EU-based hosting, git-push deploys, automatic HTTPS, no cold starts. Free tier with a custom domain — perfect for shipping the agent you just read about.

$git push zahid main
Live at https://your-agent.zahid.host
Get free account → Pricing
from €0/mo · no card required
LIVE [news/hints-and-mcp-server…] indexed:0 read:1min 2026-08-05 ·