Loading…
17-18 September | Amsterdam, Netherlands
View More Details & Registration

IMPORTANT NOTE: Timing of sessions and room locations are subject to change.
← Back to schedule
Most MCP Servers are Empty - David Golverdingen, Warmtebouw
Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
An analysis of 856 tools across 103 MCP servers found 97% of tool descriptions carry a critical smell. But smells aren't the real problem: the data is fine, what's broken is meaning. MCP isn't dead, most servers are empty, calling every endpoint and understanding nothing.

I run nine production MCP servers (50+ tools) at a 300-400 person Dutch HVAC company, used daily by non-developers. A maturity ladder emerged: most just wrap an API; a rare few teach the agent the domain, with the knowledge inside the tool description itself. The same data behind a wrapper versus a self-teaching tool is a different product.

To climb the ladder as you build: scaffold from the API docs, ship something simple, then run Introspective Context Engineering, a loop of Examine, Flag, Validate, Encode, Iterate. An AI explores the data and flags patterns by confidence; a domain expert confirms or kills the uncertain ones in an afternoon. Then telemetry takes over: every call carries a queryIntent, so the logs reveal what the agent thought it was doing, exposing the gap. Fixes take hours, not design cycles.

You'll leave with the maturity model, the discovery method, and a runnable open-source example.
Speakers
avatar for David Golverdingen

David Golverdingen

Senior Engineer & MCP Architect, Warmtebouw
David Golverdingen is a Senior Engineer & MCP Architect at Warmtebouw, a mid-sized Dutch HVAC company. He built and runs its production MCP platform: nine servers, 50+ tools and five MCP Apps that let non-technical staff explore the company's ERP, BIM, building automation and energy... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

Sign up or log in to save this to your schedule, view media, leave feedback and see who's attending!

Tweet Share

Get help with the event

Contact event planner Event login
View support guides Find upcoming events
Create an event you'd love to attend!
Explore why organizers choose Sched • Success stories
Event App • Event scheduling • Event registration • Event ticketing • Sched forms • Call for papers • Badges • Conferences
© 2026. SCHED LLC - All rights reserved - Helping events since 2008
Conference Scheduling Software • Privacy • Terms
Share Modal

Share this link via

Or copy link