Agent Token Optimization Patterns

Overview

Token = cost + latency. Every token you can save without losing quality is pure value — lower bills, faster responses, and more headroom before context limits bite. At scale, unoptimized agents burn 3-10× more tokens than necessary, primarily through context stuffing, wrong-model routing, and cache thrashing.

Token optimization is not about cutting corners. It is about precision: sending exactly the information the model needs, in exactly the right form, to the right model, at the right time.

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