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I built a CLI harness that strips JS/TS function bodies with Babel AST to save 80% context tokens

While working on large Next.js and TypeScript repositories, I noticed AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code) constantly burning through context limits. They were reading 500-line implementation files when all they really needed were the types, interfaces, and exported signatures. To solve this mech…

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  1. 2026-11-13 16:12 · DEV Community — AI
    I built a CLI harness that strips JS/TS function bodies with Babel AST to save 80% context tokens

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