Migrating Legacy Plugins and Custom Tools to MCP (ANSWERED)
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Inventory tools, wrap existing APIs behind MCP servers incrementally, run dual-write period with adapter shim in old hosts, pin schemas, migrate hosts to MCP client, deprecate plugins after parity tests and user comms.
The Interview Question
Your org has bespoke IDE plugins and ad-hoc function-calling wrappers. Describe a migration path to MCP without breaking existing agent workflows.
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