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I was paying to send 27 unused tools to Claude. So I filtered them.

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I stared at my Anthropic bill. $200. For one month. Of Claude Code. Not because I was doing anything special. Just... regular coding. But here's the thing nobody tells you: Claude Code sends 27 tool definitions with every single request. 27 JSON schemas. Every turn. Even if you're just fixing a typ…

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  1. 2026-08-25 11:08 · DEV Community — AI
    I was paying to send 27 unused tools to Claude. So I filtered them.

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