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Your MCP Setup Is Eating Half Your Context. Here's the Fix.
MCP integrations were eating 30-50% of context window before you could even type. Sessions dying every 10-15 minutes. We tried everything. Skills, code execution wrappers, universal configs. Nothing worked.Claude Code just shipped Tool Search. It loads MCP tools on-demand now. Zero context cost until you actually need them.In this episode:• Why MCP was a context tax• What we tried (and why it failed)• How Tool Search works• The fix if it's not enabled yetConnect everything. No penalty anymore.
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By Steve OakMCP integrations were eating 30-50% of context window before you could even type. Sessions dying every 10-15 minutes. We tried everything. Skills, code execution wrappers, universal configs. Nothing worked.Claude Code just shipped Tool Search. It loads MCP tools on-demand now. Zero context cost until you actually need them.In this episode:• Why MCP was a context tax• What we tried (and why it failed)• How Tool Search works• The fix if it's not enabled yetConnect everything. No penalty anymore.