Tool-Surface Compression: Designing Systems for AI Agents
2,500 API endpoints. Expose every one of them as an MCP tool and you get, according to Cloudflare, 1.17 million tokens for tool definitions alone, before the
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Edmund Haselwanter
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Context Engineering: Why Less Context Makes Better Agents
Update June 2026. I wrote this in March. Three months and several studies later, the thesis has held up but sharpened. Rather than writing a second article, I
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