MCP hits 1000 bots, but context loss and prompt discipline still define who wins.

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The MCP marketplace crossing 1000 bots is a headline number, but the real story is infrastructure maturity lagging adoption. Developers are still losing context switching between hosted and local setups, which means the ecosystem is wide but shallow. Meanwhile, the tip about refusal instructions reframes agent design entirely: capability is table stakes, constraint is craft. The meta-pattern today is that scale without discipline creates fragility. More bots, more context loss, more edge cases. The builders who win will be the ones who define boundaries first.