Stacking More MCP Servers Made My Agent Worse, Reddit User Says
Glittering-Bus-8500 · reddit · 2026-11-10
A Reddit user reports that after weeks of stacking MCP servers onto their setup (GitHub, a database, browser, Figma, docs), things started getting worse rather than better.
- Output quality degraded noticeably and one project broke; the model hit its context limit quickly, before writing a single line of code.
- Their theory: each server adds more tool descriptions the agent must sort through, so past a threshold it gets confused about what to use when — though they admit they haven't tested it properly.
- They're torn between leaving everything connected "just in case" and only enabling what each project needs, and ask the community what they do.
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