A literature review an agent can actually run
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An agent with a web search tool writes a literature review that sounds right. An agent with your own sources writes one you can check. The difference is not the model — it is whether every claim comes back with the passage it came from.
That is the job MCP is good at here: the agent is already in a conversation with you, it already has a plan, and it needs a tool that answers from your documents and hands back the evidence. Here is the loop that works, and the parts that waste your allowance if you skip them.
