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I scanned 25 popular MCP servers — the hidden context-tax spans 544

by wartzar-bee

Connecting an MCP server silently adds tokens to every model request before you ask anything. I measured the tool-schema context-tax on 25 popular servers. It ranges from 35 to 19,054 tokens per request. No listing directory shows this.

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