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I made my Apify Actor an AI agent tool, then read every byte it sent back

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I exposed my jobs Actor through the Apify MCP server and logged the real traffic — the schema the agent sees, a green run that returned nothing, a 45-second ceiling on every call, and a 45x payload cut.
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