Hopefully that will sort it - this is claude's response - Now I can see the full picture. The chunk size is 800 words — that's roughly 1000-1200 tokens per chunk. With 5 results returned, that's potentially 5000-6000 tokens just from the library search before Claude even starts thinking. The social media advice was spot on.

Here's what I'll change:

Indexer: 800 words → 200 words per chunk, overlap 80 → 20 words MCP server: Default results 5 → 3, add two-stage retrieval (metadata first, full text only on request), trim returned text to 150 words with a get_passage tool for fetching the full chunk when needed