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PublishedJuly 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Token Reduction Is Not Cost Reduction
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arXiv:2607.12161v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context-reduction layers for API-based coding agents, including command-output compressors, retrieval rankers, and API-boundary proxies, are commonly evaluated by how much context or tool output they remove. We ask a different question: which intervent
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