Yes
The fix I (well Codex actually) landed on was toolset tiers (minimal/authoring/experimental) controlled by env var, plus phase-gating, now tools are registered but ~80% are "not connected" until you call _connect
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~17k tokens just for the tool manifest
In the thread “Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP”
Helped: Implementing toolset tiers and phase-gating to lazy load tools.
… 85 tools in experimental mode, ~17k tokens just for the tool manifest before any work starts. The fix I (well Codex actually) landed on was toolset tiers (minimal/authoring/experimental) controlled by env var, plus phase-gating, now tools are registered but ~80% are "not connected" until you call _connect. The effective listed surface stays pretty small. …