Reduce Claude Code token usage

Attach a file and it is turned into Markdown on your own computer, with no internet connection and no outside service. Headings, lists and tables keep their shape: a table in a PDF comes out as a table, even when it carries on over two pages. Spreadsheets come out without the usual junk (no NaN, no Unnamed columns, no stray .0), and hidden sheets are named as left out.

Each file is turned in a separate process with limits on memory and time, so a huge or broken file cannot freeze AigoPilot.

Under each attached file one line says what its text costs compared with the file itself, for example “its text: 2,911 tokens instead of 9,806”. If something could not be read, that line says what is missing, in red. Click it to open the text and check it yourself.

Paste an address and AigoPilot fetches the page once and keeps only its main text: no menus, cookie notices, side columns, share buttons, comments or footer. Headings, lists, tables and code stay as they were, and links are kept whole. An address that points to a PDF or Word file is turned like any other file.

A page behind a “prove you are human” wall is refused with the reason, after two more tries, and never saved as if it were the content. You are told how to bring it in by hand instead.

The text of a file is kept next to it. Attach the same file again and, if its bytes have not changed, the text from last time is used, with no new work and no new cost.

Every picture is resized to under 2000 pixels on its long side, however it was added, and the original is kept. If the model refuses an image, the message says which one and why.

The context bar shows how much the system prompt, tools, MCP tools, memory files and skills take before your first word. An MCP server you never use, or a memory file that has grown out of hand, shows up right there, so you know what to switch off. More on the context bar.

Every new turn of a long session sends its whole history again. One click writes a handover note and opens a fresh, linked session that starts from the note instead, and the button shows what the handover costs before you press it. For Claude Code, and since October 2026 for Codex too. How the handover works.

A session left idle longer than its prompt cache lasts will read its whole context again at full price. AigoPilot warns you before you send, with the number of tokens involved, so you can start a fresh session instead.

When a context fills up, a card offers three ways out: compact it, hand it over, or move to a model with a bigger window. You pick, instead of the session stalling.

Each project shows its share of this week's usage, and each session what it took from the five-hour and weekly windows. The token ledger counts every model call once, sub-agents included. Usage and limits.

One place for the other ways to get more done within the same limit: keeping the prompt cache warm, compacting the context at the right time and handing parts of a job to sub-agents. No particular saving is promised.