Show HN: Beta-Claw – I built an AI agent runtime that cuts token costs by 44%
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I built Beta-Claw during a competition and kept pushing it after because I genuinely think the token waste problem in AI agents is underrated. The core idea: most agent runtimes serialize everything as JSON. JSON is great for humans but terrible for tokens. So I built TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) - same structure, 28-44% fewer tokens. At scale that's millions of tokens saved per day.