Tools definitions minimum is 7K tokens?

[goji]

As you can see in the screenshot above, for a simple “hello world” prompt Tool definitions seems to take up 7K tokens.
This is despite having no Tools and MCPs defined in this Cursor installation / project.
Is 7K the minimum possible?
It would have been great to get some additional info when clicking on the category inside the context info.

[Colin]

Hey there.

I think this is a duplicate of this thread over here!

Tools context to high with no plugins and no MCPs

I’m trying to understand why the Tools section of my context window is taking up around 21K tokens, even in a brand-new chat where no real work has been done yet. A teammate of mine, in a longer conversation, only has 7.7K tokens in Tools. We’re both on the same project and using the same configuration. I don’t have any plugins installed, and all my MCPs are deactivated. In the screenshot below, you can see a brand-new conversation where I only asked it to say “ok,” and the tools were already …

Suggest you continue the convo there if you have any more questions.