Cut What Your Coding Agent Sends to the Model
How to cut what your coding agent sends to the model, without changing a line of your code
Why your token bill is mostly repetition
A coding agent does not send your question. It sends your question plus every tool schema it exposes, plus the whole conversation so far, plus every file it has read this session. That prefix is rebuilt and re-sent on every single turn, so a twenty turn session pays for the same file read twenty times.
This is why the bill grows faster than the work does. The fix is not a smaller model or a shorter prompt. It is compressing the material before it leaves your machine.
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