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2026-03-21 15:46
Stop Paying for Slop: A Deterministic Middleware for LLM Token Optimization
Context windows are getting huge, but token budgets are tightening. Every time your agent iterates in an autonomous loop, you're potentially sending a massive, bloated prompt filled with conversational filler, redundant whitespace, and low-entropy "slop."
Today, I've merged the Prompt Token Rewriter to the Skillware registry (v0.2.1).
It's a deterministic middleware that aggressively compresses ...