TOON

A developer created TOON, a compact data format that reduces LLM prompt tokens by 30-60% for repetitive JSON arrays by declaring keys once and listing values row by row. The format is designed for dev…

A developer reports that switching from JSON to TOON for structured output, using condensed markdown, and replacing long instruction lists with multi-shot examples reduced their LLM pipeline costs by …

A new GitHub repository for RAIF (Repairable AI Interchange Format) claims a line-oriented, value-first wire format that reduces token cost by about 14% compared to JSON and self-repairs common LLM ge…