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Two Ends of the Token Budget: Caveman and Tool Search

DEV.to AIΒ·April 11, 2026

The article discusses the unique token budget in Claude Code's context window, which must accommodate all model inputs and outputs. It introduces the 'Caveman' plugin, which saves about 75% of output tokens by instructing the model to be more concise.

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