GitHub Slashes Agent Workflow Token Spend up to 62% with Daily Audits and MCP Pruning (opens in new tab)

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GitHub reports cutting token costs in agentic CI workflows by up to 62% by pruning unused MCP tools, swapping some MCP calls for gh CLI, and running daily “auditor” and “optimizer” agents. A token-usage.jsonl artefact and an Effective Tokens metric help track spend across models and spot regressions.

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