Install one MCP per task

Ten idle servers spend tokens on schemas you will not call. Keep the set as small as the job.

Start from the task: files, issues, docs, or a database. Install one server and prove a read-only call.

A second server is justified when the first cannot see the system.

When the task ends, disable what you added. Shared team configs rot.

See when-not-to-use-MCP and evaluate-MCP. The directory is a catalog.