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Your MCP Servers Are Silently Draining Your Context Window: The Hidden Cost of Tool-Heavy AI Agents

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Why attaching dozens of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools degrades LLM reasoning, inflates API bills, and how small, focused TypeScript micro-tools fix the problem.
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