AIPass developer rejects MCP as "context tax"

The critique of MCP highlights a growing divide between universal integration standards and high-performance, specialized agent architectures. MCP's "N x M" integration advantage is countered by the overhead of injecting full tool schemas into model context, which the developer claims is "just not worth the cost." AIPass prioritizes a local-first, "agent-as-citizen" model where orchestration is handled by deterministic code rather than LLM-driven tool selection, offering a philosophical alternative to protocol-heavy approaches for systems where performance and cost-efficiency are paramount.