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Developer Rewrites Tool Descriptions to Meet Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory Standards

A developer at LastPing has detailed the process of getting their monitoring service's tools listed in Anthropic's Connectors Directory. The primary challenge involved rewriting tool descriptions, which had become overly instructional, to comply with Anthropic's policy. The developer found that by removing direct commands and rephrasing instructions as factual statements about the tool's capabilities and limitations, they could maintain functionality while adhering to the directory's guidelines. AI

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Developer Rewrites Tool Descriptions to Meet Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory Standards

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Tedo Patsatsia ·

    We rewrote all 50 of our MCP tool descriptions to get into Claude's Connectors Directory

    <p>I build <a href="https://lastping.dev" rel="noopener noreferrer">LastPing</a>, a monitoring service for cron jobs, CI pipelines and AI agents. It has a remote MCP server with 50 tools, so an agent can create monitors, read failed runs and write notes on incidents.</p> <p>This …