AI Manifest: How I Cut AI Agent Tokens by 82% on Multi-Step Web UIs

AI Manifest: How I Cut AI Agent Tokensai, webdev, opensource, standards by 82% on Multi-## TL;DRToday I shipped an open protocol that lets AI agents (Claude, MCP clients, Playwright-driven bots) execute multi-step web workflows without repeatedly analyzing the DOM. Benchmark results (30 iterations, ERP-style two-step order entry, tiktoken cl100k_base ):| Metric | Baseline (DOM analysis) | AI Manifest | Improvement ||---|:---:|:---:|:---:|| Mean input tokens | 1887.6 | 341.0 | −81.9% || Task succ