I built a drop-in MCP server that sanitizes web content before it reaches your LLM — stripping prompt injection vectors deterministically, no LLM call needed. Along the way I found it also cuts token usage by ~90%.

Hidden HTML elements, zero-width characters, base64 payloads, fake LLM delimiters (<|im_start|>, [INST], <<SYS>>) — WebFetch passes all of it straight through. mcp-safe-fetch strips it in 8 stages on raw HTML and the resulting markdown.

Tested against PayloadsAllTheThings: caught 3 hidden elements and 4 LLM delimiter patterns WebFetch missed. Side effect I didn't expect — ~90% average token reduction across 4 test sites. Live test: same article, same task, 24,700 tokens vs 575.

Doesn't catch semantic injection (malicious instructions in visible text). That requires model judgment.

npx -y mcp-safe-fetch init — sets up Claude Code in one command. Works with any MCP client.