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Token overhead in coding agents: the task used 0.67% but overhead used the rest
- VishalKelur 3mo ago[flagged]
- polski-g 3mo agoWhat I do to keep MCP context usage under control is: 1) Enable every MCP server you want 2) Disallow tool usage on your main agent 3) Create sub-agents that are designated to just use that MCP toolset by overriding the disallow with an allow of the MCP tool list. I have one for gitlab (which has over a hundred tools), one for sound generation, one for image generation, etc.