Every time your LLM agent calls a tool and reads the result, you're paying a tax. Not in dollars — in tokens, latency, and reliability (ok, dollars then). The tool's output gets serialized into text, tokenized into the context window, attended to by the model, and then re-serialized when the mo...
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