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I tested 3 Claude Code plugins to reduce costs. Here’s what actually worked

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For context, I’m working on an internal CRM builder with a multi-agent setup (orchestrator + dev agents + reviewer that can iterate over the same task for many turns). When I looked into where most of the tokens were going, I realized it wasn’t the generated code, but the cache reads. And thinking…

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  1. 2026-08-31 15:57 · r/ClaudeAI
    I tested 3 Claude Code plugins to reduce costs. Here’s what actually worked

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