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# [Cut Agent Web-Read Tokens](https://danmercede.hashnode.dev/cut-agent-web-read-tokens?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Experiment Log · 2026-07-05 · 03:40 PM PT Raw HTML can burn 80 percent of an agent's context. Extract-first fetching keeps only the signal. Hypothesis: Converting a page to markdown before the model

Jul 5 · 1 min read · danmercede.hashnode.dev  
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