Enhancement: Order tool list by usage so truncating clients keep key tools#369
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…tools MCP clients that cap the tool list at a fixed size were dropping commonly used tools, since the go-sdk returns tools sorted alphabetically by name. Reorder the tools/list response to surface the most useful tools first, falling back to alphabetical order for the rest. The preferred order is registered via the new toolsets.RegisterToolOrder registry (mirroring the existing profile registry) from internal/cli, which references the concrete Method constants. This keeps config free of the twdesk -> config import cycle and avoids hard-coded tool-name strings.
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Description
MCP clients that cap the tool list at a fixed size were dropping commonly used tools, since the go-sdk returns tools sorted alphabetically by name. Reorder the tools/list response to surface the most useful tools first, falling back to alphabetical order for the rest.
The preferred order is registered via the new toolsets.RegisterToolOrder registry (mirroring the existing profile registry) from internal/cli, which references the concrete Method constants. This keeps config free of the twdesk -> config import cycle and avoids hard-coded tool-name strings.
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