Compression Modes

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Mode Comparison Matrix

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1. Conservative Mode

• Normalizes excessive whitespace, blank lines, and line breaks.
• Drops standard conversational preambles (e.g., “As a helpful AI assistant…”).
• Leaves all adjectives, descriptive modifiers, and secondary clauses intact.

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Before & After Example

// Before (36 tokens)
As an AI language model, please help me with the following task. Could you please take a look at this code snippet and optimize it?

// After (16 tokens — 55% reduction)
Help me with task. Take a look at this code snippet and optimize it:

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2. Balanced Mode (Production Default)

• Converts wordy role definitions into concise structural directives ("You are an experienced DevOps engineer whose responsibility is to..." $\rightarrow$ "Role: DevOps engineer. Task:...").
• Strips conversational pleasantries, hedging, and repetitive qualifiers ("Please note that", "It is important to remember that").
• Protects critical logic anchors (never, must, always, only, not).

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Before & After Example

// Before (48 tokens)
You are an expert database administrator. Please make sure that you write a clean SQL query to retrieve all active users from the accounts table. Make sure not to select deleted records.

// After (22 tokens — 54% reduction)
Role: database administrator. Write SQL query to retrieve active users from accounts table. Do not select deleted records.

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3. Aggressive Mode

• Strips transition words, conjunctions, and conversational glue.
• Deduplicates repetitive instructions across multi-chunk context windows.
• Compresses wide Markdown tables into compact delimiter arrays while preserving row-column associations.

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Before & After Example

// Before (74 tokens)
Here is the retrieved context from the company handbook. In addition, please keep in mind that employees are required to submit their expense reports by the last Friday of every month without exception.

// After (24 tokens — 67% reduction)
Retrieved context: company handbook. Employees submit expense reports by last Friday of month without exception.