# Performance: agent tools and dashboard pages answer faster

2026-10-12 | improved | agents, dashboard | https://www.gatlas.ai/changelog/2026-10-12-faster-agent-tools-and-sign-in

The median agent tool call went from 214 ms to 134 ms on production, and the dashboard's sign-in check from 145 ms to 9 ms in Copenhagen.

Agent tools over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the way your agent connects to Gatlas, take less time per call. Measured on production on Oct 6 and 12, 2026, a tool's median time per call went from 214 ms to 134 ms, and `describe_view`'s from 219 ms to 76 ms. The slowest 1% went from 2.7 s to 1.2 s. `search_documents` matches your words while it reads your question's meaning. The dashboard's sign-in check before each page went from 145 ms to 9 ms at the median in Copenhagen. Every connection keeps its access.

[Connect your agent](https://www.gatlas.ai/docs/using-mcp)

Use it to:

- Ask your agent a chain of questions about a company with less waiting between steps.
- Move between dashboard pages without waiting on a sign-in round trip.