René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Excessive context usage for tools","articleBody":"I went from 34k tokens to 80k tokens just by adding the github mcp to Claude Code. Even though I am specifying an explicit toolset representing only things I'd use on a day to day basis as a developer, there are over **66 tools**!\n\nMy MCP registration in Claude Code:\n\n```json\n\"github\": {\n  \"type\": \"http\",\n  \"url\": \"https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp\",\n  \"headers\": {\n    \"Authorization\": \"Bearer SNIP\",\n    \"X-MCP-Toolsets\": \"context,orgs,repos,issues,pull_requests,actions,discussions,actions\"\n  }\n}\n```\n\nBefore I added Github MCP:\n\n\u003cimg width=\"461\" height=\"165\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4f061dd9-e7ee-4e36-82b6-ff492e2c8999\" /\u003e\n\nAnd after:\n\n\u003cimg width=\"452\" height=\"168\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7504b795-447a-4888-af15-1a89b816d71d\" /\u003e\n\nI really want to use this MCP server because claude is so much more efficient with it than the `gh` CLI. However, being able to use nearly only half of Claude 4.5's available context for a single MCP tool is just too much for me.\n\nI was really hoping this was optimized but it doesn't seem so. I hope the team can address the volume of tools soon. I think some consolidation is desperately needed.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/rcdailey","@type":"Person","name":"rcdailey"},"datePublished":"2025-10-23T14:04:09.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/1286/github-mcp-server/issues/1286"}