Your MCP Server Is Eating Your Context Window. There's a Simpler Way

MCP tool definitions can consume 55,000+ tokens before an agent processes any user message, with one team reporting 72% of their 200k context window burned on tool schemas alone. Benchmarks show MCP costs 4–32× more tokens than CLI for identical operations. The Apideck CLI offers an alternative using ~80 tokens with progressive disclosure via --help, requiring no protocol support.