Articles tagged “token-optimization”
3 articles
Tools & MCP·13 min read
Your MCP tool descriptions are failing your agent
97% of real-world MCP tool descriptions contain quality problems that hurt agent accuracy and inflate token costs. Here's what the research found and how to fix it.
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Agent Architecture·13 min read
Prompt caching: the cost cut most agent teams skip
Prompt caching cuts API costs 41-80% and TTFT by up to 31%. Learn where to put the cache breakpoint, when it backfires, and how to monitor hit rates in production.
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Operations·13 min read read
Your agent re-reads its own manual on every call
Datadog's 2026 State of AI Engineering report found that 69% of input tokens go to system prompts, yet only 28% of LLM calls use prompt caching. Here's how to diagnose the problem and fix it without rewriting your agent.
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Learn Agentic AI
Weekly. Patterns for shipping agents that work. MCP, scorecards, regression tests, prompts, model comparisons.
