New post: I've been experimenting with a pattern to kill MCP token bloat.

The problem

Every MCP server loads 5-15 tool definitions into your context. Add a few servers and you're burning tokens on tools you're not even using.

The discovery

Agents can call MCP servers directly via CLI. No inheritance from parent session. No bloat.

Main session stays lean. Agents spawn, call mcp call @supabase/mcp-server query '...', return results.

Still testing. Might break in weird ways. But the architecture is sound.