Measured the actual token waste on a local Qwen 3.5 122B setup. The numbers are unreal. Found a compile-time approach that cuts query context from 1,373 tokens to 73. Also discovered that naive JSON conversion makes it 30% WORSE.
Full benchmarks and discussion here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/openclaw/comments/1sb03zn/stop_paying_for_tokens_your_ai_never_needed_to/
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