Comment by buremba
10 hours ago
AFAIK Claude Code doesn't inject all the MCP output into the context. It limits 25k tokens and uses bash pipe operators to read the full output. That's at least what I see in the latest version.
10 hours ago
AFAIK Claude Code doesn't inject all the MCP output into the context. It limits 25k tokens and uses bash pipe operators to read the full output. That's at least what I see in the latest version.
That's true, Claude Code does truncate large outputs now. But 25k tokens is still a lot, especially when you're running multiple tools back to back. Three or four Playwright snapshots or a batch of GitHub issues and you've burned 100k tokens on raw data you only needed a few lines from. Context-mode typically brings that down to 1-2k per call while keeping the full output searchable if you need it later.