I audited my AI agent stack: 92,413 tokens burned before the first message

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A while back there was a thread on r/mcp: "Running 15+ MCP servers can burn 60,000 tokens before your agent reads a message. " Everyone in the comments was fixing it piecemeal: lazy-loading hacks, a homemade get-tool-help tool, grepping /context output by hand. It was why: And after shipping per-tool rankings today (a Reddit suggestion), I found out claude-code's Read tool alone costs 7,487 tokens of schema. One tool. duplicate registrations resolving to different binaries, which means which one answers your tool calls then depends on load order. supply-chain roulette.

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