u/muhamedyousof

Just like the title suggests, the Enable_TOOL_SEARCH: "true" in settings.json file actually preventing claude code from loading all mcps upfront and saves a lot of context and only load the mcp when needed, this was not working about a month or so, but i tried now and it worked again and saved me about 20% of context window at startup (which also reduces usages along the session, and 20%s will added up)

hope this helps someone

the limits are not amazing, but I honestly think a lot of people are accidentally wasting huge amounts of context.

I used to complain about the same thing on Pro because I was hitting limits way too fast. Then I noticed my sessions were literally starting with like 35% context already gone before even doing real work lol.

Turned out I had too many unnecessary MCPs enabled + my CLAUDE.md was bloated.

After cleaning that stuff up, sessions now usually start around 7% instead.

And the difference is massive because every iteration keeps resending context again and again. So if your baseline is huge, every prompt becomes expensive.

Before that, doing one big feature or maybe 2 medium ones could eat like 20-30% of my weekly quota in a day.

Now it’s more like 10-15% max for similar work.

Still not perfect obviously, but for me the issue became way more manageable after reducing context bloat.

Using claude code btw

https://preview.redd.it/6pwb3kky1xyg1.png?width=2032&format=png&auto=webp&s=d503838f3fbad8643bc295d8f5416a4b27f4e7a6

have installed the zcode as in the image below, but i wonder, does it auto updates and use claude code cli under the hood?