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We probed a single MCP server installed with one line of npx config. It exposes 372 tools and 335,954 bytes of JSON schema, roughly 42 percent of a 200K context window.
An audit of 77 Claude Code rule files found 22 loading on every session, and 10 of those were Chinese translations of the other 10. That is 4,265 tokens of duplicate instruction per session.
Claude Code budgets its skill listing at 1 percent of the context window. We counted 228 skills across four scopes totalling 50,606 characters, 25 times over budget on a 200K model.