New testing by AI consultancy Systima found that agent harness configuration can significantly inflate token overhead and enterprise AI deployment costs, with research showing that changing the harnes…
A developer placed a logging proxy between two coding agents and their model to measure token overhead. Claude Code shipped roughly 33,000 tokens of scaffolding before a 22-character prompt, while Ope…
A wire-level analysis by Systima reveals that Anthropic's Claude Code sends approximately 32,800 tokens before reading a user's prompt, compared to 6,900 tokens for OpenCode—a 4.7x overhead gap. The s…
A wire-level analysis by Systima published this week found that Claude Code sends approximately 33,000 tokens to Anthropic's API before processing a single word of your prompt — 4.7 times more than Op…