TOKEN-EFFICIENCY
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Blog
Claude Code Sends 33k Tokens Before Your Prompt - OpenCode Sends 7kNew research shows Claude Code's system prompt and tool scaffolding consume 4.7x more tokens than OpenCode before processing user input. The HN thread debates whether that overhead buys better outcomes.
Tool
MCP CLILightweight CLI for discovering and calling MCP servers. Dynamic tool discovery reduces token consumption from 47K to 400 tokens. Three subcommands: info, grep, call.

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