During December 2025, Ben Thompson enhanced AI-assisted tooling safety and clarity across the Azure/aks-mcp and IBM/mcp-context-forge repositories. He developed annotation-driven features in Go and Python, introducing title and hint metadata for internal tools to help large language models distinguish between read-only and destructive operations. By standardizing tool capability annotations, Ben improved automated tool selection and reduced risk in backend workflows. His work focused on scalable safety improvements in cloud environments, leveraging Azure and API development expertise. The depth of his contributions lies in aligning cross-repository standards, enabling faster, safer automated decisions and clearer semantics for AI-driven backend systems.