Runtime Compression: The Other Half of the Token Tax
The previous article, Tool-Surface Compression, was about getting external functionality, entire APIs and systems, into the agent as token-efficiently as
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AuthorPaul Strebenitzer
Martin Buchleitner
Edmund Haselwanter
Juergen Brueder
Matthias Theuermann
Marina Brooks
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Theresa Wallas
Miriam Grainer
Jan Klare
Tool-Surface Compression: Designing Systems for AI Agents
2,500 API endpoints. Expose every one of them as an MCP tool and you get, according to Cloudflare, 1.17 million tokens for tool definitions alone, before the
Harness Engineering: Why the Frame Matters More Than the Model
It took me three iterations to implement a straightforward feature across two repositories. Not because the model was inadequate — same model, same task. The
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