Unraveling the Mystery of Your MCP Invoice: A Step-by-Step Guide

If you're building MCP servers, here's a cost that's easy to miss: Every tool you expose is re-sent to the model on every call. Not once at startup, every. Single. Turn. The tool's name, its description, and its full JSON input schema all go into the model's context each time it decides what to do.

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