Each tool targets a distinct action: listing, inspecting, reading, writing, controlling, waiting, and health checking are all separable. The only mild ambiguity is between wait_channel_event and read_channel, but the descriptions clearly separate waiting for activity from reading output.

Most tools follow a clear verb_noun pattern: get_channel, list_channels, read_channel, send_control, write_text. The exception is health, which breaks the pattern by being a bare noun rather than something like get_health or check_health.

Seven tools is a well-scoped size for a terminal-channel runtime. Each tool covers a meaningful operation without redundancy or bloat.

The surface covers the core interaction lifecycle for existing channels: inspect, list, read, write, control, and wait. Channel creation/teardown is not exposed, but that may intentionally live outside this server's scope, so it is a minor rather than critical gap.