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Why did a token-saving skill add ~3% to my Codex input?

I tried recovering five current-state values from each of three synthetic project histories, roughly 20k tokens each. After switching to shorter rules and replacing a saved test log with rtk's output, mean input was 39,223 tokens. Loading the Caveman skill brought it to 40,388, another 1,165 tokens…

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  1. 2026-10-23 18:28 · r/PromptEngineering
    Why did a token-saving skill add ~3% to my Codex input?

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