Why Your AI Agent Drowns in 50,000 Tokens of Tool Definitions Every time you connect an MCP server to your AI agent, you're adding thousands of tokens of tool definitions to your context window. Connect 10 servers? That's 50,000 tokens of tool schemas before you've even asked a question.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/hypernexus/why-your-ai-agent-drowns-in-50000-tokens-of-tool-definitions-25e5)