← Back to context Comment by anamexis 2 days ago Well you need to use context space somehow, to tell Claude that the LSP CLI exists and how to use it. 2 comments anamexis Reply wild_egg 2 days ago It takes a dozen tokens to put "when you need to do X, run `foo --help` and use it" in your CLAUDE.md.Plenty of MCPs and plugins and whatnot out there idly consuming 5-25k tokens 24/7. How is that the same? anamexis 2 days ago Because you can enable/disable MCPs and plugins just like you can choose not to include that context in CLAUDE.md .I do it all the time. I have several MCPs configured but only enable them on demand.
wild_egg 2 days ago It takes a dozen tokens to put "when you need to do X, run `foo --help` and use it" in your CLAUDE.md.Plenty of MCPs and plugins and whatnot out there idly consuming 5-25k tokens 24/7. How is that the same? anamexis 2 days ago Because you can enable/disable MCPs and plugins just like you can choose not to include that context in CLAUDE.md .I do it all the time. I have several MCPs configured but only enable them on demand.
anamexis 2 days ago Because you can enable/disable MCPs and plugins just like you can choose not to include that context in CLAUDE.md .I do it all the time. I have several MCPs configured but only enable them on demand.
It takes a dozen tokens to put "when you need to do X, run `foo --help` and use it" in your CLAUDE.md.
Plenty of MCPs and plugins and whatnot out there idly consuming 5-25k tokens 24/7. How is that the same?
Because you can enable/disable MCPs and plugins just like you can choose not to include that context in CLAUDE.md .
I do it all the time. I have several MCPs configured but only enable them on demand.