build1 distinct publisher
255 tools, 71,929 tokens: the standing charge hidden in your MCP config
One measurement puts a 50-server tool catalog at 56 percent of a 128K context window before the first prompt. The per-server arithmetic is the part worth budgeting.
Publishers:dev.to
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+44
- Incentives86
- Confidence