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Audit MCP servers, skills, and CLAUDE.md bloat eating your Claude Code context window.

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Unclog – find and fix Claude Code context bloat

Name: Unclog – find and fix Claude Code context bloat
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Author: tomchill

by tomchill·Apr 19, 2026·3 points·0 comments

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Reclaims wasted context tokens by auditing MCPs and skills before you type.

Strengths

•Live MCP probing calculates actual tool schema token costs accurately.
•Snapshot-based restoration ensures reversible changes without risking broken local configurations.
•Interactive TUI picker makes curating unused skills and hooks frictionless.

Weaknesses

•Tightly coupled to Claude Code ecosystem; useless if you switch agents.
•No automated suggestions for which specific MCPs are redundant versus unused.

Post Description

I've been using Claude Code heavily for a few months and kept adding MCPs, skills, hooks, and CLAUDE.md files along the way. Ran a measurement recently and found I was burning 16k tokens of context before typing a single message.

I built unclog to surface this. It scans ~/.claude, shows you what's eating your context window and how much, then lets you selectively remove things. Every change is reversible — it snapshots before touching anything.

uv tool install unclog

unclog

Feedback welcome — especially edge cases from setups heavier than mine.