MCP Shrink
Cut MCP context waste by ~90% - hosted compression proxy
Details
- External ID
- 1253634
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- MCP Shrink
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
7 MCP servers eat 67,300 tokens (33.7% of a 200k window) before your first message - we measured it. MCP Shrink is a hosted compression proxy for any remote MCP server: tool definitions become ~54-token stubs that lazy-load on call, tool responses are distilled before they hit your context, and a dashboard shows tokens saved live. Works with any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Code, Cursor, Cline). Existing compressors are all local stdio proxies - nobody offers hosted. Validating demand before
Enrichment
- Theme
- utilities for Claude and Claude Code
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- context compression proxy for mcp servers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a reverse proxy middleware for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that intercepts tool schema definitions to compress them into stubs and summarizes responses using fast LLM distillation.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 88 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 89 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.
- Context Mode · hn · 2026-02-25 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- MCP-tidy · hn · 2026-01-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MCP file tools silently eat your context window.I built one that doesnt · hn · 2026-03-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Shrink: Photo Compressor · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- MCPlexor · hn · 2026-02-09 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Context Gateway · hn · 2026-03-13 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Edgee Codex Compressor · ph · 2026-04-12 · 166 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Edgee Codex Compressor V2 · ph · 2026-09-18 · 90 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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