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Why Your AI Agent Drowns in 50,000 Tokens of Tool Definitions
Why Your AI Agent Drowns in 50,000 Tokens of Tool Definitions
Every time you connect an MCP server to your AI agent, you're adding thousands of tokens of tool definitions to your context window. Connect 10 servers? That's 50,000 tokens of tool schemas before you've even asked a question.
Your agent is drowning in tools it doesn't need.
The Problem
Traditional MCP integration dumps every available tool into the context:
{
"tools" : [
{ "name" :...
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