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GitHub Slashes Agent Workflow Token Spend up to 62% with Daily Audits and MCP Pruning

GitHub Slashes Agent Workflow Token Spend up to 62% with Daily Audits and MCP Pruning

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.

By Mark Silvester

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