Token Saving
6 parts in this series
Token Optimisation 101: Stop Burning Money on AI Coding Agents
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.
Progressive Subagents: Score the PR Before You Spawn Eight Agents
Subagents are token guzzlers. Eight in parallel on a PR feels clever and bills like a freelance crew. The fix is a signalling layer that decides how many to spawn and in what order. Part of the token-saving series.
Browser-Harness: Preconfigure Navigation So Your Agent Stops Rewriting It
Browser-harness is a coordinate/CDP-driven browser harness for AI agents. Preconfigure the site navigation once and the agent reuses the structure instead of regenerating scripts every run, which keeps token usage down on repeated browser work.
Oracle: Let a Cheap Model Consult a Premium One on Demand
Oracle is a CLI and Claude Code skill for getting a second opinion from a stronger model. A lesser model drives, escalates the hard calls to a premium one, and adversarial review goes through the same door. Pay premium only for the 10% that needs it.
Ponytail: Lazy-Senior-Dev Mode That Writes Less Code
Ponytail is a Claude Code plugin that forces the laziest solution that works. YAGNI, stdlib first, one line over fifty. Less code generated means fewer output tokens, smaller diffs, and less to read back later.
rtk + Headroom: Trim at the Shell, Compress on the Wire
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.