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A customer's coding agent keeps filling its context with logs, test output and big file reads. Design the fix and prove it saves money.

Offloading tool output can cut what the model reads by 99% and still make sessions more expensive. How to design output offloading for a coding agent, and the paired test that tells you whether it actually paid off.

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Offloading tool output can cut what the model reads by 99% and still make sessions more expensive. How to design output offloading for a coding agent, and the paired test that tells you whether it actually paid off.

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