Agentic Token Efficiency Master Constitution (Zero-Waste Agent Architecture)

Overview

In multi-turn autonomous coding environments (Antigravity, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, OpenClaw), token consumption scales quadratically ($O(N^2)$) if context is not rigorously managed. Unoptimized agents dump 2,000-line files into context, execute verbose shell commands, and generate lengthy conversational commentary - exhausting context windows, degrading attention, and multiplying API costs 10x.

The Agentic Token Efficiency Master Constitution defines the 5 non-negotiable operational axioms that every high-performance AI coding agent must enforce across tool execution, context ingestion, and code mutation.

The 5 Operational Axioms of High-Performance Agents