Your AI agent wastes 13,000 tokens before saying "hello"
If you have an agent with 50 MCP tools installed, you're spending up to 13,000 tokens on the catalog alone — before processing any user message. Introducing TTC, a TERSE Format extension that cuts that overhead by 66.6% with net reasoning-signal gain.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 151609) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Rudson Kiyoshi Souza Carvalho Posted on Apr 29 Your AI agent wastes 13,000 tokens before saying "hello" #agents #ai #llm #mcp And you probably have no idea. If you have an agent with 50 MCP tools installed, here's what happens before any user message is processed: { "name": "gmail_send_email", "description": "Sends an email message via the Gmail API to one or more recipients.
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