list_x methods exceed token limits

[f0xe-shreds]

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using the simple examples from the Okta developer blog post, like, "How many users do I have in Okta?" or "How many groups do I have in Okta?" because it just results in:

Error: MCP tool "list_groups" response (2931255 tokens) exceeds maximum allowed tokens (25000). Please use pagination, filtering, or limit parameters to reduce the response size.

Obviously due to the size of the objects returned..

So, unless I'm missing something... the list_groups or list_users or really any list_x tools are essentially unusable or can only work in the context of finding objects with very specific criteria that inherently return fewer results.

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[imfromthebay]

+1 to this - I find myself running into the exact issue on every single thing I thought I'd be able to use this MCP server for lol.

[pranav-okta]

Thanks for raising this. I believe the pagination is built in for the listing methods. Could you try tweaking your prompt to list the first page and see if it returns any response?

[f0xe-shreds]

Thanks for raising this. I believe the pagination is built in for the listing methods. Could you try tweaking your prompt to list the first page and see if it returns any response?

@pranav-okta i appreciate your reply, though, I think the max is 200 users per page for the list users api which is well beyond what I can realistically pull without hitting that token limit. I think I get <20 users before I hit the limit. That's just one tool call.. to do any type of meaningful analysis (the kind that I think most developers/administrators would find absolutely game changing) you'd need to use several tools, which given the current architecture, is not at all possible. Again, just taking one of the prime examples discussed in the blogpost - "how many users do I have in my org?" - given the current limitations, this doesn't seem like a good example use case to promote, even in a demo scenario.

I really hope this MCP continues to be developed, because I think we'd all agree, the potential is absolutely game changing.