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bobkinartemtoday at 6:36 AM2 repliesview on HN

I thought Codex and Claude Code agents are already token-efficient so writing agents that saves tokens is pointless.


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denis-stabletoday at 8:53 AM

I don't know about Codex, but Claude Code defers loading tools if their definitions exceed 10% of the context, https://code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp#how-it-works.

vichletoday at 7:34 AM

Are they though? Will they always be? Is it in their interest to be efficient?