File System Sync Found Up to 100x Faster Than MCP for Agents

Locality's tests across 20 cross-app production scenarios found syncing app data to a local file system beats MCP by roughly 100x in context retrieval speed, cutting agent costs 27% and latency 32%.

2026-08-19 ~ 2026-08-20 · 2 related posts

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