Add --compact flag to /context to collapse MCP tool list
Problem
When running /context, the MCP tools section enumerates every available tool individually. With MCP servers that expose many tools (e.g., the official Atlassian MCP exposes ~30 tools), the list pushes the actual token usage breakdown off the top of the terminal. Users have to scroll back up to see the numbers they opened /context for.
Proposed solution
Add a --compact (or similar) flag to /context that collapses verbose sections:
- MCP tools: show per-server tool counts instead of listing every tool (similar to what
/mcpalready does) - Custom agents, Skills, Memory files: optionally collapse to counts + total tokens
Example compact output for the MCP section:
MCP tools · /mcp (loaded on-demand)
├ atlassian: 31 tools
└ (other servers...)
Why this helps
The primary reason to run /context is to see the token usage breakdown. The detailed tool enumeration is useful occasionally (debugging why something isn't loaded), but not on every invocation. A compact mode would make /context much faster to scan during normal work.
Workarounds today
/mcpshows server-level tool counts without full enumeration- Scroll to the top of the output manually
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