Your MCP connector spends context before you type

With tool search on, tool definitions load on demand, so adding servers has little effect on your context window.

Claude Code truncates each tool description and each server instructions block at 2KB.

MCP tool output warns above 10,000 tokens and is capped at 25,000 by default, raised with MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS.

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