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What I learned building a lossless token compressor for Claude Code
Community description: In a long Claude Code session, most of what gets sent to the API isn't your prompts. It's tool...
Dev.to | Nov 5, 2026 | Anil Vishwakarma
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It's tool output: JSON from APIs, command logs, grep results, the same file read twice. On 9 of my own real Claude Code sessions (1,237 requests), the lossless mode saved 7.2% on the final request. Expect less there: on 78 of my Codex sessions the lossless mode saved 3.8% per request on average, because Codex already trims long command output.
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