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Your GitHub MCP server costs 55,000 tokens before your agent reads a single word.

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Here's a cost most people connecting MCP servers never see on a dashboard, because it's spent before their agent says anything. Connect the GitHub MCP server and it exposes ~93 tools. The client serializes every one of them — name, description, full JSON parameter schema, enum values, example text…

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  1. 2026-09-28 18:38 · DEV Community — AI
    Your GitHub MCP server costs 55,000 tokens before your agent reads a single word.

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