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Does compacting tool output lower a coding agent's API bill?
Community description: Coding agents resend old tool output on every turn, so replacing it with something smaller looks like...
Dev.to | Oct 8, 2026 | Aniket
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The first compactor summarised any tool output over 2,000 characters. DeepSeek reports cache hits as prompt_cache_hit_tokens. Medians per session over 25 runs per arm.
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