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io.github.shbernal/rfc-ai-tooling

RFC lookup

Is the RFC lookup MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-10-31.

40x fewer tokens while reading the RFC corpus and flag obsoleted specs.

alive probed 2026-11-15 · unchanged since 2026-10-31

3tools
1.4ktokens in Claude Opus 5.5
0.7 %of Claude's 200k window
0.6×the median server
2.4 sto initialize
5 msto list tools
Run it
uvx mcp-server-rfc@0.6.1 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host
pypi.org
Reports itself as
rfc 0.6.1
Capabilities
prompts, resources, tools
Instructions
215 characters
Of a 1M window
0.1 % of a 1M context window
Count
1.4k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-26. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 1.5k. The o200k_base estimate is 917. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository
https://github.com/shbernal/rfc-ai-tooling
Registry
active, updated 2026-10-30 · registry entry

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.55×.

Tool≈ Claude tokenso200k estimateShare of this server
search_rfcs63140744 %
get_rfc53234337 %
list_sections25916718 %

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