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Microsoft's TokenEconomizer cuts coding agent costs up to 30.9%, and it does it by editing your config files

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The short version Microsoft Research, UC Berkeley and Microsoft Security published TokenEconomizer last week (v0.1.0, October 26, Apache 2.0). It is a plugin for Claude Code, Codex, the GitHub Copilot CLI and Pi that cuts what your agent costs to run, without touching model weights or agent code. O…

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  1. 2026-11-01 12:50 · DEV Community — AI
    Microsoft's TokenEconomizer cuts coding agent costs up to 30.9%, and it does it by editing your config files

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