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Your GitHub MCP server costs 55,000 tokens before your agent reads a single word.
Community description: Connect the GitHub MCP server and 93 tool schemas load into context — ~55,000 tokens, every turn, before your agent does anything. Add Slack and Sentry and you've burned 143k of a 200k window on definitions. Here's why MCP is token-heavy by design, and the three cases where it's still worth it.
Dev.to | Sep 28, 2026 | Rudratosh Shastri
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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. Count the tokens your tools cost before your agent runs.
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