He Offloaded Claude Code's File Reading to Gemini via an MCP Server, Cutting Context 99%
Lucanhtai15 · reddit · 2026-11-10
Tired of Claude Code burning 40k tokens just to read files, a Reddit user built an MCP server that offloads reading to Gemini:
- Claude calls offloadsubmittask with a short brief (task, steps, desired answer shape) and gets a job id back immediately, keep working
- A read-only Antigravity CLI (agy) worker reads only in-scope files (git ls-files), using the author's idle Google AI Pro quota
- Claude reads back a 200-word summary and pulls path:line findings only if needed
On the same endpoint-listing task, the worker took 8 min and 192k Gemini tokens while Claude read 0.5k; 6 sampled citations all checked out. Later additions: parallel jobs, follow-ups reusing the worker's conversation, and a local dashboard showing which files the worker opens. The backend is swappable — any CLI with a non-interactive mode works.
Caveats: it's minutes not seconds (submit early); "read-only" is tool-constrained, not a sandbox; files go to Google, so don't point it at private code. Tested on Windows 10 + Claude Code. Install: npx -y offload-mcp-server setup; open-sourced on GitHub.
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