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The full playbook for cheap, sharp agent work. Get observability in first (statusline, burndown, OTEL), compress what reaches the model (rtk, headroom), route who does the work (premium delegates, cheap executes, advisor escalation, model-per-task), then work the long tail: caveman, the right browser validator, scoped scans, fewer MCPs, handover, and a memory system. The capstone of the Token Saving series.
Two token trimmers that stack: rtk is a Rust CLI proxy that filters dev-command output at the shell (60-90% off ls, grep, git, tests), and Headroom is a local compression proxy that compresses tool output, logs, files and RAG chunks on the wire, with CacheAligner to protect your prompt cache. Real numbers from two days of use.
How to stop getting rate-limited after an hour on Claude Code, Codex, or Copilot. Context window mechanics, the /effort command, model routing, kicking new conversations, and the silent token drains most people miss.