An Instrument for MCP Agent Studies

The two benchmark reports I published in July, the knowledge-layer ablation and the stored-knowledge study , both came out of the same piece of software: a benchmark harness in the bench/ directory of mcp-data-platform , roughly 36,000 lines of Go in its own module, kept out of the platform&rsquo;s build on purpose. What I value most in that harness is turnaround. On July 31 I committed a probe…