Your MCP Servers Are Eating Your Context Window — Here's How to Find Out

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You installed 5 MCP servers. Your context window just lost 40,000 tokens. And you had no idea. The Hidden Cost Nobody Talks About MCP (Model Context Protocol) is transforming how AI assistants interact with the world. But there's a cost nobody's measuring: every MCP tool silently eats your context window.