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Initializing MCP Tools

Once you have the configuration set up, you need to initialize the MCP tools:

const mcpTools = await mcp.listTools();

This asynchronous call fetches all the available tools from the configured MCP servers. The listTools() method connects to each server specified in your configuration, retrieves the available tools, and returns them in a format that can be used by your Mastra agent.

The mcpTools object will contain all the tools provided by the MCP servers you've configured. We'll add these tools to our agent in the next step.