Claude code vs Opencode token overhead

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    The startup overhead is the part that surprised me. Measurements going around put Claude Code near 33k tokens of tool schemas plus preamble before it even reads your prompt, vs ~7k for OpenCode. A lot of that is MCP schema you never actually invoke.
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