EP195: How tool attention ends the tools tax

Title: Tool Attention Is All You Need: Dynamic Tool Gating and Lazy Schema Loading for Eliminating the MCP/Tools Tax in Scalable Agentic WorkflowsSource: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21816v1Summary:This paper introduces a middleware-layer mechanism that reduces tool-related token overhead by 95% through dynamic gating and lazy schema loading. It provides a critical efficiency breakthrough for scaling agentic systems to support hundreds of tools without exhausting context limits or sacrificing reasoning quality.