I made a free linter that catches wasted tokens in prompts before you pay for them
If you iterate on prompts a lot, you are probably paying for tokens that do nothing: repeated instructions, over-verbose JSON, random UUIDs pasted inline, dynamic content placed where it kills prompt caching. I built Token Sift to catch this automatically — 20 lint rules, cost estimate per 1K calls…
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- 2026-10-14 01:27 · r/PromptEngineering
I made a free linter that catches wasted tokens in prompts before you pay for them