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Your AI Agent Is Wasting Half Its Tokens — Here's What to Change

Caitlin Sullivan
June 26, 2026
Introduction

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A series of measurement experiments on token usage in MCP-connected agent workflows, prompted by the discovery that a simple markdown-to-Notion copy was consuming 18,000 tokens. The author traces where tokens silently disappear and shares concrete changes that cut the waste.

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