What the Agent Pays for Discovery
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A reader of MCP vs API Is the Wrong Question asked the question I could not answer at the time: did you measure the token cost of the live MCP discovery round trip against handing the model a curated tool manifest up front, and where does the break-even sit? I answered from first principles then. T…
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- 2026-09-16 11:15 · DEV Community — AI
What the Agent Pays for Discovery