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MCP vs REST: The Bill Comes in Tokens
2026-08-0514
GitHub's MCP server spends roughly 17,600 tokens on tool descriptions, with the full toolset on, before you ask anything. What that buys, when REST is still better, and the twelve articles a "success" response quietly truncated.
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