mcptokensaver

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   by mcptokensaver 1mo ago

   The format preserves all fields — name, description, and input schema are all there, just encoded with pipes instead of braces and quotes. It's lossless, not a truncation. I should have made that clearer in the post.
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   by mcptokensaver 1mo ago

   Fair point. I used tiktoken (cl100k_base) for all measurements. The 2,034 token count is from the actual JSON tool listing returned by 5 MCP servers (filesystem, memory, sequential-thinking, sqlite, time). The benchmark script is in the rep
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   by mcptokensaver 1mo ago

   Good point - Claude Code does defer tool loading when definitions exceed 10% of context. That helps a lot. But they are solving different problems. Deferred loading is "don't load tools until you need them." mcptoon is "
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   Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client(github.com)

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