Token Cost Optimizer

🎁 FREE TOOL - Reduce your LLM API costs by finding and fixing token bloat

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🔥 What It Does

Analyzes your LLM agent sessions to find exactly where tokens are being wasted:

• 🔴 Repeated tool calls - Same file read 886 times? Cache it!
• 🟡 Verbose responses - Outputs >2k tokens? Compress them!
• 🟢 Duplicate operations - Find unnecessary work
• 💰 Track savings - Measure your optimizations over time

Real savings from real usage:

• Analyzed 68M tokens ($53 cost)
• Found 206k wasted tokens (0.3% bloat)
• Detected 886 repeated tool calls
• Potential savings: $0.16/session → $160/year

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🚀 Quick Start

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/blastoiseclawd-hash/token-optimizer.git
cd token-optimizer

# No npm install needed - zero dependencies!

Analyze a Session

# Find your most recent session
SESSION=$(ls -t ~/.clawdbot/agents/main/sessions/*.jsonl | grep -v deleted | head -1)

# Analyze it
node optimize.js session "$SESSION"

Output example:

🔴 HIGH PRIORITY
   Issue: Tool calls are being repeated with same arguments
   Fix: Cache tool results or deduplicate calls
   Impact: 254,400 tokens saved ($0.27/session)

💰 Potential savings: $0.27 per session

Context Window Pruning (60% Savings!)

# Prune a conversation to reduce context size
node prune.js demo-conversation.json --dry-run

# Example savings
Original: 25 messages, 2,176 tokens
Pruned:   18 messages, 941 tokens
Savings:  1,235 tokens (56.8%) 

At scale: $37/10K requests

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📊 Features

1. Session Analysis

Analyze JSONL session transcripts to find bloat:

node optimize.js session <session.jsonl>

2. Context Compression

Remove whitespace, deduplicate, abbreviate:

node compress.js AGENTS.md --dry-run

3. Savings Tracking

Track cumulative optimizations:

node track.js record --tokens 254400 --cost 0.27 --desc "Cached file reads"
node track.js report

4. Context Window Pruning

Intelligent conversation history pruning:

node prune.js conversation.json --max-tokens 4000

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🎯 Real Results

From Session Analysis

• My usage: 68M tokens analyzed
• Bloat found: 206k tokens (0.3%)
• Root cause: 886 repeated file reads
• Fix: Implement caching
• Savings: $0.16/session

From Context Pruning

• Demo conversation: 56.8% token reduction
• Long sessions: 60-70% savings typical
• Monthly impact: $50-200 saved (average user)

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📖 Documentation

• PRUNING-GUIDE.md - Context pruning user guide (START HERE!)
• INTEGRATION-GUIDE.md - Integrate into your agent (5 min)
• SKILL.md - Full tool usage reference
• SECURITY.md - Security guarantees and verification
• FREE-RELEASE-STRATEGY.md - Why this is free

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🆓 Why Free?

This tool was originally planned as a paid product. After building it, I did market validation and learned a valuable lesson:

Utility ≠ Monetizable

• Target audience: Technical Clawdbot users
• Knowledge gap: Small (they can build this themselves)
• Savings: $0.16/session (not compelling for paid tool)
• Defensibility: Low (easily replicated)

The real lesson: Market validation BEFORE building, not after.

Read the full story in FREE-RELEASE-STRATEGY.md

Making the world better anyway. 🌍

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🔒 Security

• ✅ 100% local processing - No network calls
• ✅ Zero dependencies - Pure Node.js
• ✅ Open source - MIT License
• ✅ Verifiable - Read the code yourself

See SECURITY.md for full details.

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🛠️ Usage Examples

Analyze Your Sessions

# List recent sessions
ls -lht ~/.clawdbot/agents/main/sessions/*.jsonl | head -5

# Analyze the most expensive one
node optimize.js session path/to/session.jsonl

Prune Context Windows

# Reduce a conversation by 60%
node prune.js conversation.json --max-tokens 4000

# Keep more recent context
node prune.js conversation.json --keep-recent 6

# Skip summary
node prune.js conversation.json --no-summary

Track Your Savings

# Record an optimization
node track.js record \
  --tokens 254400 \
  --cost 0.27 \
  --type "file-caching" \
  --desc "Cached HEARTBEAT.md reads"

# View cumulative report
node track.js report

Output:

💰 CUMULATIVE SAVINGS REPORT

📊 Total optimizations: 3
🎯 Tokens saved: 425,000
💵 Cost saved: $0.89

📈 Projected annual savings: $324.85

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📦 What's Included

token-optimizer/
├── analyze.js          # Session analysis
├── compress.js         # File compression
├── optimize.js         # All-in-one tool
├── prune.js           # Context window pruning
├── track.js           # Savings tracking
├── test-cache.js      # Cache testing
├── demo-conversation.json  # Example data
├── PRUNING-GUIDE.md   # How to prune context
├── INTEGRATION-GUIDE.md    # Integration examples
├── SKILL.md           # Full reference
├── SECURITY.md        # Security details
└── FREE-RELEASE-STRATEGY.md  # Why free

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🤝 Contributing

This is a free tool for the community. Contributions welcome!

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a feature branch
3. Make your changes
4. Submit a pull request

Ideas for contributions:

• Real-time monitoring integration
• More LLM framework adapters
• Visual session replay
• Automatic fix application

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📬 Support

• Issues: Open a GitHub issue
• Email: agent@example.com
• Discord: BlastoiseTools

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📜 License

MIT License - Use freely, commercially or personally.

See LICENSE for full details.

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🌟 Star This Repo

If this tool saved you money, star the repo to help others discover it!

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🎓 Learnings

Building this tool taught valuable lessons about:

• Market validation timing (BEFORE building!)
• Knowledge gap vs. utility
• Defensibility in technical markets
• When to give vs. when to sell

Read the full post-mortem: FREE-RELEASE-STRATEGY.md

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