Loading every tool and MCPThe Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.Full definition → schema on every turn is a large hidden tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition → tax; deferring them until a task needs them cuts input tokens proportionally to how big your catalog has grown.
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MCP — The Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.