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Too Many MCP Tools: I Gave My Agent 61 and It Got Dumber

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I asked my agent to close a stale GitHub issue. It searched Notion. Twice. Then it called a Slack tool named search_messages , found nothing, apologized, and tried Notion again. The GitHub tool it needed was sitting right there in its tool list, four entries below the one it kept picking. Nothing w…

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  1. 2026-09-01 04:06 · DEV Community — AI
    Too Many MCP Tools: I Gave My Agent 61 and It Got Dumber

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