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MCP Token Cost: I Cut My MCP Server From 15 Tools to 4

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Here is a number that should bother you. GitHub's official MCP server loads about 55,000 tokens across 93 tool definitions before you ask it a single question. On a 200K context window that is more than a quarter of your budget, spent, before the agent does any work. I did not believe it until I me…

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  1. 2026-10-26 12:52 · DEV Community — AI
    MCP Token Cost: I Cut My MCP Server From 15 Tools to 4

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