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Re:Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client by philipp-gayret on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @03:29AM (#49254568)
OP, I'm very interested in seeing an actual comparison ran through a common tokenizer of tool calls. I think you'll find different results than what you intended for this tool to be. You've mixed up tokens with characters on your screen.
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Re:Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client by mcptokensaver on Friday August 14, 2026 @04:37AM (#49296089)
Fair point. I used tiktoken (cl100k_base) for all measurements. The 2,034 token count is from the actual JSON tool listing returned by 5 MCP servers (filesystem, memory, sequential-thinking, sqlite, time). The benchmark script is in the repo under /benchmarks if anyone wants to verify.
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