mcp-context-cost

fetch — context cost

238 tokens across 1 tools — lean (< 1K). Measured 2026-08-18 under methodology v1.0.

   
server (self-reported) mcp-fetch v1.29.0
status measured
tokenizer tiktoken / o200k_base
launch command uvx --with "mcp\<2" mcp-server-fetch
isolation docker · ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:python3.12-bookworm-slim · network bridge · network enabled for package fetch; clean FS, no host credentials
env vars supplied none
canonical SHA-256 5d0a1b56f6c08786d7d764b6f4376fba201015e5a5995b6b39c14350bd4aeeb3
category official-reference
source https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers

Where the tokens are

tool tokens share description schema
fetch 236 99.2% 60 165

Each tool is tokenized on its own, so the parts do not sum exactly to the whole: the array adds its own brackets and commas, and the tokenizer merges tokens across object boundaries. The badge number is always the count of the whole array, never a sum of parts.

Re-derive it

npx -y mcp-context-cost verify results/fetch/measurement.json

That re-tokenizes the published capture and checks the count and the hash. If it disagrees with the badge, the badge is wrong — open an issue and it gets corrected.

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