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by ashdksnndck 110 days ago
Verbosity of the output seems orthogonal to the cli vs mcp distinction? When I made mcp tools and noticed a lot of tokens being used, I changed the default to output less and added options to expose different kinds of detailed info depending what the model wants. CLI can support similar behavior.
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It has nothing to do with outputs, it’s about the json spec data that goes into the context.