Cutting half your MCP servers may make your agent smarter overnight
heypearlai · x · 2026-07-29
A blunt recommendation: delete half your MCP servers and your agent may get smarter overnight.
The attached example points to the idea that too many tools can bloat context and hurt performance, so only the most useful servers should stay in the stack.
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