Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens

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Author: JohnnyZhang483

Date: 6/5/2026

Article Summary:
The author shares the results of a performance comparison between two MCPs (MCP-A and MCP-B) with identical functionalities, highlighting the poor design patterns in MCP-B that led to significantly worse performance.