Your AI agent wastes 13,000 tokens before saying "hello"

And you probably have no idea. If you have an agent with 50 MCP tools installed, here's what happens before any user message is processed: { "name" : "gmail_send_email" , "description" : "Sends an email message via the Gmail API to one or more recipients. Use this tool when the user explicitly requests to send, compose and send, or deliver an email message to someone." , "input_schema" : { "type" : "object" , "required" : [ "to" , "subject" , "body" ], "properties" : { "to" : { "type" : "string"