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Token‑Efficient Agents: Building MCP‑Heavy Agents Without Burning Tokens

https://codeagentsalpha.substack.com/p/tokenefficient-agents-building-mcpheavy
1•olegkozlov•1mo ago

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olegkozlov•1mo ago
LLM agents stop being “just chatbots” the moment they start using MCP tools. But once you wire in multiple MCP servers into your workflow - MCP tools are quietly burning tokens and margin.

Here is a deep dive on the latest techniques from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI that help to get back a significant portion of LLM input context when working with MCP tools