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A small CLI to stop hitting Claude Code's "too many MCP tools loaded" warning

A developer created mcp-profile, a free CLI tool that lets Claude Code users define named profiles of MCP servers and switch between them with a single command, avoiding the 'too many MCP tools loaded' warning. The tool edits Claude Code's existing config fields and requires no new config format, daemon, or network calls.

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If you run more than a couple of MCP servers in Claude Code, you've probably hit

the loaded-tools warning (~40 tools). The usual fix is manually enabling/disabling

servers by hand every time your task changes, and remembering which tools depend

on which.

mcp-profile

is a small, dependency-free CLI (+ a Claude Code skill) that lets

you define named profiles — e.g. "research", "coding", "deploy" — each listing

the MCP servers that task actually needs, then switch between them with one

command:

mcp-profile use research

It edits the same enabledMcpjsonServers

/ disabledMcpjsonServers

fields

Claude Code already reads — no new config format, no daemon, no account, no

network calls. MIT licensed.

Repo: https://github.com/pozga/mcp-profile

Feedback wanted: does this match how you're actually hitting the tool-count

problem? What would make this worth paying for (team-shared profiles? a

dashboard?) vs. just a free utility?

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