Yet another piece of rushed technology that's being heralded as "the way" which will most certainly be discarded when the next hype-able acronym comes along.
The only upside to these technologies being shotgun implemented and promoted is that they'll inevitably lead to a failure that can't be pushed under the rug (and will irreversibly damage the credibility of AI usage in business).
To paraphrase the Bjarne Stroustrop quote: There are only two kinds of language model tool calling protocols: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses
It appears Anthropic developed this "standard" in a vacuum with no scrutiny or review and it turns out it's riddled with horrific security issues, ignored by those hyping up the "standard" for more VC money.
Reminds me of the micro-services hype, which that helps the big cloud providers more than it helps startups with less money even with some over-doing it and being left with enormous amount of technical debt and complex diagrams costing them millions to run.
The only upside to these technologies being shotgun implemented and promoted is that they'll inevitably lead to a failure that can't be pushed under the rug (and will irreversibly damage the credibility of AI usage in business).