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MCP Tool Discovery Ate 3,384 Tokens per Turn. I Got It Down to 816.

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MCP Tool Discovery Ate 3,384 Tokens per Turn. I Got It Down to 816. Every time your AI Agent or coding assistant (like Claude Code or Cursor) connects to your infrastructure stack, it pays a silent "entry fee" in tokens before processing a single line of your actual prompt. I recently audited our p…

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  1. 2026-09-09 07:59 · DEV Community — AI
    MCP Tool Discovery Ate 3,384 Tokens per Turn. I Got It Down to 816.

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