Toolport Topped Out at #5 on Product Hunt With a Free MCP Gateway That Cuts Tool-Definition Overhead 96%
Toolport (formerly Conduit) launched August 8 as a free, open-source, local-first MCP gateway that puts every MCP server behind one port and exposes just three meta-tools the agent searches on demand instead of loading full schemas. It claims ~900 tokens of tool overhead on a frontier model versus the usual load — 96% less tool-definition overhead per request, up to 91% fewer total tokens at the same task success, and 99.5% reduction on a real 415-tool catalog — plus tool integrity checks, quarantine for changed tools, and secrets held in the OS keychain. With each MCP tool definition costing 200–500 tokens and five servers routinely burning 30,000–60,000 tokens before a user says anything, this is the context-bloat tax getting solved by a free indie tool rather than a vendor.
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