I have seen ~10 IQ points drop with each MCP I added. I have replaced them all with either skill-like instructions or curl calls in AGENTS.md with much better "tool-calling" rate.
That's a context pollution problem, not an MCP problem.
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
That's a context pollution problem, not an MCP problem.
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use