# Amp — Efficient MCP Tool Loading

- Company: Amp (ampcode.com)
- Announced: 2026-01-08
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://ampcode.com/news/lazy-load-mcp-with-skills
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7768-efficient-mcp-tool-loading
- Subject: Amp

Amp introduced a feature that lets users combine MCP server configurations with Agent Skills, so that tool definitions are loaded only when the skill is invoked, reducing token consumption.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://ampcode.com/news/lazy-load-mcp-with-skills:

> Amp now allows you to combine MCP server configurations with Agent Skills , allowing the agent to load an MCP server's tool definitions only when the skill is invoked.

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