According to my understanding, during MCP initialization, the client receives a list of tools from various MCP servers. Then, when a user makes a request, I think the LLM decides the order of MCP calls using the list of tools by providing them like headers, which requires more tokens (and decision …

About limitation of the number of MCP tools

algis July 4, 2025, 3:48pm 7

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