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MCP Costs 72% of Your Context: The Fix Pi Shipped

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The agent that spent a year refusing to support MCP just shipped MCP support, and the reason why matters to anyone running tool-heavy agents. On September 29, Pi (the minimal coding agent whose homepage used to say "Pi does not support MCP") released v0.99.0 with native Model Context Protocol support, announced in a post titled "You Said No MCP!". By October 1 it was sitting at #1 on Hacker News with hundreds of comments arguing about what it means. I was researching the release for my own MCP servers, mostly because I have been on both sides of this fight. My agent context has been eaten aliv

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