The Convergence of Schema-Guided Dialogue Systems and the Model Context Protocol

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18764v1
• Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:02:35 GMT
• Title: The Convergence of Schema-Guided Dialogue Systems and the Model Context Protocol
• Abstract summary: This paper establishes a fundamental convergence: compatibility-Guided Dialogue (SGD) and the Model Context Protocol (MCP)<n>SGD and MCP represent two manifestations of a unified paradigm for deterministic, auditable LLM-agent interaction.
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• Abstract: This paper establishes a fundamental convergence: Schema-Guided Dialogue (SGD) and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) represent two manifestations of a unified paradigm for deterministic, auditable LLM-agent interaction. SGD, designed for dialogue-based API discovery (2019), and MCP, now the de facto standard for LLM-tool integration, share the same core insight -- that schemas can encode not just tool signatures but operational constraints and reasoning guidance. By analyzing this convergence, we extract five foundational principles for schema design: (1) Semantic Completeness over Syntactic Precision, (2) Explicit Action Boundaries, (3) Failure Mode Documentation, (4) Progressive Disclosure Compatibility, and (5) Inter-Tool Relationship Declaration. These principles reveal three novel insights: first, SGD's original design was fundamentally sound and should be inherited by MCP; second, both frameworks leave failure modes and inter-tool relationships unexploited -- gaps we identify and resolve; third, progressive disclosure emerges as a critical production-scaling insight under real-world token constraints. We provide concrete design patterns for each principle. These principles position schema-driven governance as a scalable mechanism for AI system oversight without requiring proprietary system inspection -- central to Software 3.0.

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