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Public story · 2026-02-27 · source-backed
Replace the deprecated ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_MCP_CLI with ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH in ~/.claude/settings.json to load MCP tool schemas on-demand instead of all at startup. One user reported context consumption dropping from 49% to 34% — a 31.7K token saving. Especially valuable now that caching bugs make every token count double.
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