Cross-Lingual Token Arbitrage: Optimizing Code Agent Context Windows via Local LLM Preprocessing

arXiv:2606.03618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-assisted coding agents are bottlenecked by input-token cost. Two pathologies of raw human input drive much of this overhead: tokenization inefficiency for non-English text and structural entropy in conversational prompts. Existing approaches act reactively by compressing already-bloated contexts or intervening after failures occur. We introduce a pre-flight, edge-side prompt-rewriting middleware that operates between the developer and the cloud