you can also use Jev to cut costs and token usage!

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Used Jev to compact shell and large file output before it reaches the LLM, cutting token usage and cost across the rest of the conversation.

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you can also use Jev to cut costs and token usage! make your agents more efficient by compacting shell and large file output before it reaches the LLM passing only necessary tokens to the model and carrying fewer tokens through the rest of the conversation

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Filed under agents & workflows. In the pattern Jev is built for, the model answers a bounded question per step — and ordinary code acts on the answer, because the answer is already a value rather than a paragraph. Other posts in the same family are on the agents & workflows page.

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