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frugal
Reduces context and token waste while preserving task-critical evidence, source pointers, and the same quality gate. Use when a software task is context-heavy, repetitive, expensive, or likely to exceed an agent context window.
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# frugal: save tokens, never save effort
The one rule decides every judgment call: **the quality gate must not
move.** A "cheaper" run that fails the task, retries twice, or ships
unverified work costs more than it saved. The KPI is *successful task
token cost*: never raw token minimization.
## Prerequisites
The task to economize plus its quality gate stated first (what must
still pass after), and whatever usage signal exists (provider telemetry,
or nothing: then savings start at **unknown**). No gate → define one
before touching the workflow; optimizing an undefined task is just
skipping work with extra steps.