Team Adoption And OpsOps Issue

MCP sprawl as a context window token tax in Claude Code

April 2, 2026Aakash Gupta

Aakash Gupta warns that adding many MCP connectors to Claude Code increases baseline context usage, making tasks more expensive and potentially slower before any work starts.

Every MCP you add to Claude Code is a silent tax on every task it runs.
Most people are excited about connecting as many MCPs as possible.
More tools, more power.
But each MCP consumes thousands of tokens just by existing in the context window.
Before Claude writes a single line
Aakash Gupta
mcpcontext windowcostclaude code

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