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Japan's Digital Agency put 75,000 administrative procedures behind MCP: the design that refuses to let the AI do the math

Japan's Digital Agency has released an MCP server that makes its administrative procedures survey (about 75,000 records) queryable in natural language. The interesting part is not the release but the architecture: the AI never touches raw data to compute. Here is what MCP is, what problem this design solves, and what changes once agents get involved.