AI instruction governance for coding agents

Make every coding agent
follow the right instructions.

Audit AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, skills, and tool policies. Remove unnecessary always-on context, compile the durable rules into portable policy, and verify that important behaviour survives.

Runs locally in your browser. No signup. No source upload.

$prompt → portable skilllive Optimize for context exposure, not just shorter prompts.
45models with verified per-million pricing
48dated price snapshots, committed to git
18free tools, running in your browser
≈ 30,237,423tokens saved in our own testing — estimated, not customer-reported
Recognise any of these?

The instructions drifted. The agent did not tell you.

None of these announce themselves. They show up as an agent that used to be reliable and now needs watching — which reads as the model getting worse, not as the instructions around it accumulating.

  • Important rules get ignored.
  • Different coding agents receive different policies.
  • Old project decisions stay loaded forever.
  • Destructive actions have no clear approval boundary.
  • The same instruction appears in several files.
  • Nobody can explain why a rule activated.
  • Shortening an instruction file quietly removes capability.
instruction architecture — context exposure
The stronger optimization model

Don't ask only how to make the prompt shorter.

Ask which instructions must be active now and which only need to be discoverable later. The cheapest instruction is the one loaded only when needed, in the smallest form that preserves required behavior.

illustrative architecture
Always-on core ............. 420
Skill discovery ............. 90
On-demand workflow ....... 2,100
Deferred references ...... 1,150
Waste / obsolete ........... 240
Typical active exposure ≈ 510 tokens
Illustrative example — not provider-measured usage.
The tokencheat loop

A build pipeline for agent instructions.

Measurement comes first. Safe transformation and behavioral evidence come before distribution.

Collect. Pull the instruction files, skills, and MCP configs your agents actually load — the real always-on surface, not the intended one.

Runtime / Policy / Capability

Separate the framework from the expertise.

Runtime

Session setup, state, host behavior, checkpoints, artifact paths and operating mechanics. Repeated runtime is a strong structural optimization target when evidence is clear.

Policy

Cross-cutting safety, evidence, completeness, interaction and output rules. Share or defer policy only when required behavior remains explicit.

Capability

The domain methodology that makes a skill valuable. tokencheat protects capability aggressively instead of treating every long instruction as waste.

Optimization levels

Not every optimization deserves the same trust.

L0
Audit only
No transformation
L1
Structural deduplication
Low risk
L2
Progressive disclosure
Low–medium risk
L3
Semantic compression
Evaluation required
L4
Lite build
Intentional capability reduction
Evidence before claims

A compiler people can inspect.

Every recommendation should include evidence, confidence, expected context reduction, behavior risk, evaluation requirements and a rollback path. A plan exists before mutation.

Deterministic first

Parsing, hashing, exact duplication and manifests should not spend model tokens.

Estimated ≠ measured

Static context estimates, provider telemetry and behavioral parity are separate evidence classes.

Critical constraints stay locked

Safety boundaries, destructive-operation gates and downstream contracts are not casually compressed.

Reversible builds

Provenance, source commit and optimization plans remain attached to compiled artifacts.

Pricing

Free today. Founding pricing for the waitlist.

Every tool on this site is free to use in your browser today. Paid plans — saved reports, API and CLI access, team governance — open to the founding waitlist first, at founding pricing locked in before public launch.

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FAQ

What tokencheat means by optimization.

Is tokencheat just a prompt minifier?+

No. tokencheat optimizes context exposure: what must be active now, what can be discovered on demand, what belongs in references, and what is truly waste. Shorter text matters only if required behavior survives.

What is Context Exposure Reduction?+

It compares typical active instruction context before and after an architectural change. It remains an estimate until provider-reported usage is measured, so estimated, measured and behavioral claims stay separate.

What is the Instruction Architecture Score?+

A diagnostic composite of always-on efficiency, duplication, progressive disclosure, trigger specificity, cohesion, portability, freshness, tool overhead, provenance and validation coverage. It is not a promise of causal dollar savings.

Will tokencheat rewrite third-party skills automatically?+

Not by default. Early optimization is conservative and structural. Unknown or restrictive licenses remain analysis-only for public distribution, and semantic changes require evaluation before an Optimized label.

Is the marketplace the main product?+

No. Measurement, compilation, validation and provenance come first. Distribution is the output of a trustworthy build system, not the starting point.

Audit the architecture before you add more context.

Start with your always-on agent config, then extract reusable workflows into portable skills.

Inside the product

The workspace the founding cohort gets.

Saved audit history, context scores over time, and a compiler that turns findings into conservative optimizations. Explore the screens — this is a live preview with illustrative data, not the product API.

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tokencheat workspace — previewillustrative data

Saved audits

24

Average context score

71

Best score

94

Est. monthly savings

$412

ReportScoreSavings

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