Comment by cowmix

I’m just getting into MCP (building my own server and trying some canned ones), and one thing I’ve noticed — some servers seem to devour your context window before you’ve even typed a single token / question.

My favorite example is the public Atlassian one — https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/remote-mcp-serv...

Even with Claude or Gemini CLI (both with generous limits), I run out of context and resources fast.

With local LLMs via LM Studio? Forget it — almost any model will tap out before I can get even a simple question in.