Token Budget Negotiator

Everyone knows long prompts cost money. Almost nobody knows which parts of their prompt actually matter. Prompts accumulate over time, a system message, a style guide, a few-shot example or two, some background context. Each addition made sense when it was added. Over hundreds of API calls, the overhead compounds. And the honest answer to "which of these sections can I remove?" is: you don't know until you test. Token Budget Negotiator makes that test systematic. It takes a prompt split into nam