Does a Language Server save tokens for coding agents? A measurement methodology and preliminary study
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2608.13568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents spend most of their context budget on retrieval. Lexical retrieval (grep) is universal, instant, and zero-setup, but noisy: it cannot tell a definition...
Original headline: "Does a Language Server Save Tokens for Coding Agents? A Measurement Methodology and Preliminary Study"
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