Jesse Liberty • 8/24/2026

Reducing Token Usage

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This article provides practical techniques for minimizing token usage in AI applications built with the Microsoft Agent Framework. It covers understanding tokens, setting max tokens, managing context by keeping recent messages, using new threads for stateless interactions, and implementing lightweight summarization to reduce payload size. These strategies help control costs and improve performance in high-volume chatbot and multi-agent systems.

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