Escaping the MCP Token Penalty: Building High-Bandwidth CLI Tools

MCPs are known to be context eaters. LLMS are pretty good at using CLIs. In this post I explain how do I created custom HTTP client and wrapped it in CLI. This combination allows LLMS to have high bandwidth tools call and avoid token penalty associated with MCPs.

Tushar Khairnar

Software engineer passionate about distributed systems, web architecture, and sharing knowledge through technical writing.