Startup Context Tax Crisis

Description

Documented context overhead problem: developers installing 7+ MCP servers (GitHub + PostgreSQL + AWS core/docs/CDK/pricing + Linear + Firecrawl) observed configurations consuming 18,300 tokens from tool definitions alone BEFORE any code is written — 9% of a 200K context window. One documented setup consumed 67k+ tokens just for tool definitions. MCP Tool Search's lazy loading (v2.1.40, March 2026) was the architectural fix, reducing context overhead by ~95% for unused tools during a session.

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