Token-Costs

Cloudflare’s “Agents Week” is delivering. Today, the company dropped two substantive announcements that together sketch out what enterprise-grade MCP infrastructure actually looks like in production: a reference architecture for governing MCP at scale, and Managed OAuth for Cloudflare Access that lets agents authenticate into internal apps without service accounts. This isn’t marketing fluff — Cloudflare is sharing their own internal strategy for how they’ve rolled out MCP across non-engineering teams (product, sales, marketing, finance). That’s the kind of practitioner credibility that makes an architecture post worth reading. ...

If you’re running AI agents with a large number of MCP tools registered, you’ve likely run into the context overhead problem: every request arrives carrying descriptions of dozens or hundreds of tools, most of which the agent won’t use for that particular task. Those tokens add up fast. Bifrost MCP Gateway is an open-source Go proxy that sits between your AI agent and your MCP tool servers, compressing context, caching repeated calls, and routing tool calls more efficiently. Community benchmarks report 92% token cost reduction at 500+ tools scale. ...