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Two Ways to Stop Your Coding Agent Burning Tokens: RTK and CodeGraph

Two open-source tools both hit ~60k GitHub stars in five months by attacking the same problem from opposite ends: AI coding agents spend most of their tokens on plumbing, not thinking. RTK compresses the output; CodeGraph eliminates the discovery.

The Harness Engineering Cheat Sheet

A quick comparative tour through how OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Shopify, and Stripe each approach the same problem: keeping coding agents on the rails.