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MCP Tools Drain Less Context Than the Panic Suggests — 6,132 Tokens for 50 of Them

4,204 tokens. That is what one MCP server costs before your agent reads a single file, runs a single command, or answers a single question. I counted it this morning, tool by tool, on a real server, and the number is both smaller and more annoying than the warnings going around suggest. Two of the…

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  1. 2026-11-13 10:00 · DEV Community — AI
    MCP Tools Drain Less Context Than the Panic Suggests — 6,132 Tokens for 50 of Them

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