Dynamic MCP Tool Loading to Reduce Context Window Consumption
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Descripción
### Feature summary
Currently, all MCP tool definitions from all connected servers are included in the context window on every turn, regardless of whether they are relevant to the current task
### What problem are you trying to solve?
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### Problem
All MCP tool definitions from all connected servers are included in the context window on every turn, regardless of whether they are relevant to the current task. In environments with multiple MCP servers, this can result in **hundreds of tool schemas consuming tens of thousands of tokens** before any conversation content is processed.
This means:
- Significantly reduced capacity for actual code, diffs, file content, and conversation history
- Earlier context truncation in long sessions
- Wasted tokens on tools that will never be invoked in a given session
- Degraded quality on complex tasks that need deep context
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### Proposed solution
### Proposed Solution
Provide mechanisms to selectively load/unload MCP tools to minimize context window usage:
1. **Per-session tool profiles** — Allow users to define named profiles (e.g., "code-review", "incident-triage", "deployment") that only load relevant MCP servers/tools.
2. **Lazy/on-demand tool loading** — Only include a tool's full schema in context when it's first needed. Use a lightweight tool registry (name + one-line description) for discovery, expanding the full schema only when invoked.
3. **Session-scoped enable/disable** — A command to toggle MCP servers on/off mid-session without restarting.
4. **Task-based auto-selection** — Intelligently infer which MCP servers are relevant based on the user's first message and only load those.
5. **Tool grouping within servers** — Allow disabling subsets of a server's tools rather than all-or-nothing per server.
### Impact
- Frees significant context capacity for actual work content
- Improves response quality on context-heavy tasks (large code reviews, multi-file changes)
- Reduces latency (fewer tokens to process per turn)
- Better user control over their tool environment
### Workflow impact
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El issue no nombra archivos, pruebas ni puntos de entrada. Empieza localizando el registro existente de herramientas MCP y el ensamblado del contexto; después, limita la propuesta a un mecanismo con criterios de aceptación explícitos para el uso de la ventana de contexto y el comportamiento de la sesión.
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Evaluación
- Área
- ai, desktop
- Tipo de issue
- Nueva funcionalidad
- Dificultad
- 5/5
- Tiempo estimado
- Más de una semana
- Estado de actividad
- Activo
- Claridad
- Necesita aclaración
- Aptitud para principiantes
- 30/100