7º. Your AI agent is wasting 90% of its tokens on field names
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Generative AI
We built the compact API format (previous post) and felt good about ourselves. API responses were 78% smaller. Tokens saved. Problem solved. Then we actually measured where our agent's tokens were going. The API responses weren't the problem. The audit We ran a token audit across all 31 skills in the system.