Minimizing Tokens in MCP Tool Descriptions

An MCP server provides a list of tools , along with their parameters and descriptions, to an AI agent. For example it may have a tool like load_file and a description saying how to use it. This description must be tokenized for the LLM to understand the tool. Minimizing Tokens It follows that using shorter descriptions is going to be faster &mdash;there is less text to tokenize and process for the…