Reduce Token Waste with an Intelligent MCP Proxy

Dan Barr

Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer

Publish Date November 09, 2025

Lessons

Beginner
< 1 min read

As you install MCP servers, the risk is that you start crowding your context window with all the tool metadata tied to those servers. While a few tools may be needed for a task, most of the metadata simply wastes tokens and risks degrading model performance. Craig McLuckie of Stacklok launched a simple solution to put an end to token waste.

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