Context Compression in .NET

Quick Tip originally published on lukaswalter.dev . In Python, libraries like LLMLingua are a well-known option for prompt compression. In .NET, we do not really have a direct equivalent yet — but we do have the building blocks to implement the same pattern. The Problem: The "Token Tax" Sending 10,000 tokens of retrieved documentation to a premium model on every query increases both cost and latency. Most of that context is boilerplate: HTML tags, redundant headers, repeated navigation, or irrel