YOUR MCP SERVER IS EATING YOUR CONTEXT WINDOW. THERE'S A SIMPLER WAY

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

AI agents using MCP often have context bloat, where extensive tool definitions consume tens of thousands of tokens. In these cases, giving your agent a CLI instead is easier, as it allows for progressive discovery of capabilities through `--help` commands. This CLI approach reduces token consumption and improves reliability by running locally, but is worse at org-wide authentication.