Tool surfaces rank from least to most composable: in-process library calls (no cross-process, no state survival), MCP/JSON-RPC stdio (slight compounding via named tools in agent memory), Unix sockets (independent lifecycles upgrade independently), local REST APIs (HTTP is the most-replayed protocol on earth), and remote REST APIs (reach added). Session-bound browser tools sit at the bottom — their state dies at end-of-turn. The wrapper that pushes a session-bound tool up to a Unix socket or local REST API is a small fixed cost; the long-term composability is the compounding return.
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