Your AI agent is burning tokens, energy, and security. Here's how I made it stop.

I was reading an Anthropic engineering post this winter that mentioned, almost in passing, that Claude Code's biggest token sink across their fleet is package-related queries. Every "how do I do X in Y", every npm install, every dependency audit. The model fetches the registry JSON, reads it, summarizes for itself, and only THEN answers you. I started measuring it on my own agent traffic. 74% of the tokens my AI assistant burned on a typical "add this library" turn were the registry payload. No...

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