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Issue 01 · October 202657 articles on fileFrom the production floorSingapore · Surat · RemoteNew: We Replaced 7 MCPs With curl and Saved 99% of the Context — read nowdevx labs · engineering quarterlyIssue 01 · October 202657 articles on fileFrom the production floorSingapore · Surat · RemoteNew: We Replaced 7 MCPs With curl and Saved 99% of the Context — read nowdevx labs · engineering quarterly
We Replaced 7 MCPs With curl and Saved 99% of the Context
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We Replaced 7 MCPs With curl and Saved 99% of the Context

MCP servers dump every tool's schema into Claude's context at session start, whether you use them or not. Seven of ours cost 240k tokens. We replaced them with lightweight connectors that keep a one-liner each and load the full instructions only when called. Total: 1,500 tokens.

Pratham Bhatia
Oct 3
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