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Cut Claude Token Costs: Prompt Caching, MCP Overhead, LSP and Model Switching
Where Claude tokens really go: resent history, the five-minute cache window, MCP schema overhead, grep versus LSP, a caveman-prompt benchmark and habits that reduce spend.
1826 wordsRead articleWhy Hermes Agent Burns Tokens and How to Cut Its Prompt to 4K
A one-word hello to Hermes Agent can trigger 30 requests and 1.5M tokens. See where the 16K prompt comes from and which CLI commands trim it below 4,000 tokens.
877 wordsRead articleHeadroom: Cutting Agent Token Costs With Reversible Context Compression
How Headroom compresses logs, RAG chunks and tool output before they reach the model, with CacheAligner, ContentRouter, CCR, proxy mode and honest trade-offs.
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