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Claude Code used 3x fewer tokens with one change: - Before: 10.4M tokens · 10 errors · $9.21 cost - After: 3.7M tokens · 0 errors · $2.81 cost I used InsForge Skills + CLI as the backend context engineering layer for Claude Code (open-source and local). With Supabase,... show more
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so basically you taught claude to ask once instead of 20 times. respect

that's correct

The one metadata call replacing a bunch of separate ones explains most of the token drop. Curious what was actually causing the 10 errors before, guessing it was drift from all that extra context piling up in the history

The 3x drop isn't from a smarter model - it's from replacing 5 chatty discovery calls with 1 structured state dump. Most token bloat is architecture, not reasoning. #ContextEngineering #AgenticAI @LangChain

3x fewer tokens and zero errors is a clean result. most people just keep dumping more context instead of structuring it once

tool schema is product design. raw API passthrough is how you burn context and teach the model to guess.

How much of the token reduction survives if you normalize for the error retry loop in the baseline run?

most teams skip evals because it feels like homework then a single prompt edit silently breaks 30% of their flows

10 errors to 0 is the real headline here

This is usefull content🫡

10.4 over 3.7 is 2.8x, not quite 3x. the errors dropping to 0 is honestly the more interesting number here, that's the part that actually saves you debugging time, not just the token count.

Zero errors too, not just cheaper

Thats called over engineering lmao

3.7M tokens for zero errors? that’s not an efficiency hack. it’s the difference between a junior who asks questions and one who actually reads instructions. stop paying for curiosity. charge for answers

3x fewer tokens is a serious systems win. — corp

This would cost around $0.10 cents on DeepSeek. I am genuinely shocked at the cost here. Just built Golang Htmx Alpine Tailwind Front end with Gitea worktrees and Go CMS system synced to Obsidian template tool with AI prompt injection for articles,scheduling etc $3 Wild.

Love a number with dirt on it—messy progress beats vanity graphs. That "Claude Code used fewer" line stuck.
