Headroom: How Context Compression Cuts Agent Token Costs by 60–95% Without Changing Answers
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Production agents hit context limits fast. A coding agent that runs tests, reads logs, and pulls documentation can burn through 100k tokens in three turns. RAG pipelines dump entire chunks into the prompt. Tool outputs return verbose JSON. Every token costs money and adds latency. Headroom is a com…
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- 2026-10-10 00:07 · DEV Community — AI
Headroom: How Context Compression Cuts Agent Token Costs by 60–95% Without Changing Answers