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ricardobeat • yesterday at 9:31 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

That’s entirely dependent on how many plugins, MCP tools, agents you have, and if you have pre-filling of all available tools enabled. Best way to avoid unnecessary expense is to avoid it all and use CLI tools instead.

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mft_ • yesterday at 10:02 PM

Agree. It's a fairly minimal list with very few extras added.

Current /context on a fresh session (compare to that above) is:

  Opus 4.8
  15.8k/1m tokens (2%)
  System prompt: 4.5k tokens (0.4%)
  System tools: 7.9k tokens (0.8%)
  Memory files: 441 tokens (0.0%)
  Skills: 3.1k tokens (0.3%)
  Messages: 8 tokens (0.0%)
  Free space: 984.2k (98.4%)