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Cut MCP Round-Trip Overhead by Looping Inside the Tool

MCP round-trip overhead can balloon a task from 2,000 to 150,000 tokens. Move the loop inside one MCP tool to collapse N calls into a single round-trip.

Deep DivesClaude CodeAI CodingMCPTypeScriptPerformanceAutomation1 min read · May 30, 2026