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Long-running MCP tools using Durable Functions

Status: workaround. This sample demonstrates a pragmatic way to run long-running MCP tools today, before the MCP Task extension (SEP-2663) is available in the Azure Functions MCP trigger. Once tasks land, the protocol handles async natively (server returns resultType: "task", client polls tasks/get via the SDK) and this two-tool workaround becomes unnecessary.

The problem