David decided: Investigated Granular MCP tool visibility to test whether tools are lazily loaded in Claude Desktop

David reported the test result to both the snitch Claude Code session and later the granular Codex session:

do not load any mcp connectors. do not do any web search. i want to test something: do you see, in your system prompt, the mcp tools you have available to you and do they have the tool definitions? or do you need to call a function to load them

The Claude Desktop response confirmed two categories: tools already loaded with full definitions vs tools requiring a separate load call. David used this to inform the granular MCP connector design — specifically whether the connector's tool schema would always be available when Claude needed to decide whether to offer a profile update, or whether it needed explicit user intent to load first.