Client Quickstart

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The quickstart https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/client calls list_tools() on every turn. Claude desktop does not behave that way. Should we simplify the sample to just call it once when it starts (and to handle notifications/tools/list_changed as an exercise)