Amp Owner’s Manual
Amp is an agentic coding tool built by Sourcegraph. It runs in VS Code (and compatible forks like Cursor, Windsurf, and VSCodium) and as a command-lin...
Amp enables lazy loading of MCP tools by integrating server configurations into Agent Skills via an mcp.json file specifying tools like navigate_page and take_screenshot from chrome-devtools.
Tools load into the context window only when the skill is invoked, reducing token usage from 17k for 26 tools to 1.5k for four. This just-in-time approach avoids upfront context overload from unused tools.