I have an interesting idea to reduce the output tokens almost by fifty percent
Most token-saving tools focus on input tokens, but output tokens are usually priced higher, and edit-heavy agent sessions waste a lot of them on a specific pattern: to safely edit a file, the agent has to output the old code block plus the new code block, just so the harness can match and swap it in. That's safe (content-based matching means line drift doesn't cause a bad edit), but it means half the tokens going out are just the agent restating content it already read. Plain line-range edits ("












