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Public story · 2026-03-16 · source-backed
Set ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH to auto:0 in ~/.claude/settings.json to defer MCP tool schema loading until invocation. Drops startup context from 54% of the 200k window to near zero. Run /context to audit. paddo.dev
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