Context Bloat in MCP: Why You Need to Slice Your MCP Servers As more companies adopt Model Context Protocol (MCP), one issue is becoming increasingly important: context bloat. In early MCP implementations, it can seem logical to expose an entire API through a single MCP server. But as deployments mature, that approach often becomes inefficient. Too much context means more tokens, more complexity, and slower performance. The better approach is to slice your MCPs. What Is Context Bloat in MCP? Context bloat happens when an MCP server provides too much information or too many available actions to the large language model. Instead of giving the model only what it needs for a specific task, the MCP includes a broad set of methods, endpoints,…