UNICEF Tested a Generic MCP Server. It Lost to No Tools.
On UNICEF's own statistics, a generic SDMX MCP server scored 0.074 at returning the right figure for the right year, below the 0.147 of no tools. A purpose-built server scored 0.990. As the UN opens 44 million data points to agents, the lesson for enterprise data teams is to fund the resolver, not the connector.
September 18, 2026 · 14 min read