Slash MCP Tools From 76 to 12
dorikuio · reddit · 2026-07-08
The author reduced an MCP server from 76 tools to 12. While maintaining compatibility, the payload size of tools/list dropped by 60%, making tool selection more stable.
Key practices included consolidating similar tools into a few verb-based tools, retaining old name mappings, adding CI regression tests to limit the tool list size, and returning a streamlined tool list for unauthenticated requests to reduce context overhead.
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