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Re:Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client by wehnsdaefflae on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:12AM (#49255271)
Maybe they want to be tokenizer agnostic? Then they would need to go by character count, right? Despite these inconsistencies, has anyone actually verified their promise? 350 vs. 10.000 tokens would still be very valuable even if they mess up some edge cases
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Re:Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client by wannabe44 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:41AM (#49255523)
Oh it is not returning full tool schema. You can't cut down that much by serialisation alone.
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