Hey there, thanks for writing in!
One thing I’ve noticed personally over the last 3-4 weeks is it seems like Anthropic’s Claude chat client - both Claude Desktop and Claude AI in the browser - seem a bit slower compared to what I was previously experiencing 2-3 months ago. I don’t have any benchmarks on this and it’s just my own observation. I’ve not really observed the speed issues when using Sonnet through other clients like Cursor.
It is important to note that the MCP server is a little context-heavy at the moment because of the way that we load all the tool descriptions on startup. There’s a lot of nuance that goes into properly creating collections, fields, relations and flows – and the LLM needs to know about that to work effectively.
But we’re working to make it a little friendlier on the context window in the future.
One thing I would encourage you to do is if you’re not using certain tools, just turn them off at the connector level so that you don’t have to load those into the context window every time you start a conversation.
If you have a lot of other services or (MCP servers) custom connecters active at the same time as well, that could also potentially cause performance issues.
And lastly, if you’re willing, I would love to see some of the specific errors. Please don’t share here publicly in the community, but if you’re able to share some of those conversations where the errors have occurred through the sharing mechanism within Claude, I would love to review those. You can send me a private DM here in the community or you can submit to marketing@directus.io.
The more data points or examples we have, the easier it becomes to try and solve any issues.