Your MCP Server Doesn’t Need 50 Tools: Design a Tool Budget Before It Eats Your Context
Adding another MCP tool feels free. It is not. Each tool comes with a name, description, input schema, examples, and an implied decision: when should the agent use this instead of every other available tool? That material competes with the task, the repository, the user’s request, and the agent’s o…
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- 2026-11-01 17:45 · DEV Community — AI
Your MCP Server Doesn’t Need 50 Tools: Design a Tool Budget Before It Eats Your Context