Stop Paying for Slop: A Deterministic Middleware for LLM Token Optimization

Dev.to AI
Generative AI AI Research

Context windows are getting huge, but token budgets are tightening. Every time your agent iterates in an autonomous loop, you're potentially sending a massive, bloated prompt filled with conversational filler, redundant whitespace, and low-entropy "slop." Today, I've merged the Prompt Token Rewriter to the Skillware registry (v0.2.1). It's a deterministic middleware that aggressively compresses prompts by 50-80% before they ever hit the