· about 4 hours ago· Dev.to
Empowering Agents: Enabling Self-Discovery of Tools with Meta-Tool Pattern
TL;DR A 200-tool MCP setup burns 150–220k tokens at session start; a two-meta-tool proxy cuts that to ~2,000 tokens — a 98–99% reduction. At $3/million input tokens and 20 sessions/day, that's $270/month down to $3/month. The pattern: one discover_tools(query) meta-tool and one call_tool(name, args)
#cloud-computing#ai-tools#token-economy#meta-learning