2026-08-11

Daily D4 Digest — 2026-08-11 TL;DR MCP’s cost problem is the scaffolding, not the protocol: a rigorous 7-scaffolding × 5-model study shows agent framework choice drives 5–139× cost variation, dwarfing MCP-vs-CLI differences LLMs ignore embedded MCP data when tools are present: 54,000-trial study fin...