The how is important, but I've found all of the decisions, question, answers, and results are the most important and the tool calls themselves secondary. When necessary, the tool calls can be deleted without much being lost.

Here's what I do for each of my sessions:

1. For asides, off-topic work, or repetitive work that has already been done in the session, branch backwards (with /tree) and summarize.

2. If I've exceeded 30% or the 'price-doubling' multi-tier pricing, prune (my custom extension).

3. If I've already pruned and I'm still close to 30%, 'prune all' (more extensive prune).

Definition:

'/prune': Removes ~50% context on a fresh session (not previously pruned)

  - Keeps: User messages, normal assistant prose, commands/status markers, extension receipts, model settings, and a plain-text receipt for each tool call.
  - Removes: Thinking, signatures, actual tool calls/results, tool output, images, compaction summaries, and other extensions’ state.

  - Keeps: User messages, normal assistant prose and conclusions, commands/status markers, extension receipts, and model settings.
  - Removes: Thinking, signatures, all tool calls/results and output, images, compaction summaries, other extensions’ state, and any tool-activity receipts created by /prune.

Using these I can keep a session going for weeks (or longer), even with extensive use and almost all the important context is preserved while dumping the less important context. Neither command requires an LLM summarization so they execute quickly.

> When you default to the lowest cost option without considering the drawbacks, procrastinating or hesitating on spending[...]

This is terrible advice, one of the easiest ways to be frugal is not to be overly attached and to defer spending.

1. Run LM Studio (download the Gemma 4 model), which has a 'local server' w/ API.

2. Use a more powerful LLM to write User Scripts (Greasemonkey, etc) to do whatever you want on any website you go to. Instruct it to connect to LM Studio.

3. Classify and highlight posts / comments based on any criteria that suits you. Summarize, delete from the DOM, etc., Just have fun.

It is like when you buy an appliance and it just fades into the background and then, one day, you realize you've had it for 10 years without any problems and you feel a tinge of gratitude before moving on with your day.

The idea is to store the power until these events. A lot of money is made from these.

* ERCOT (Texas) has more renewables generation than every other ISO, including CAISO (California)

* ERCOT is setting new renewables records almost every month, as new renewables sites come online.

Source: https://www.gridstatus.io/home

https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/wp/2012/2012-035.p...

Compare this to software where you only ever use a subset of the features yet still have to pay the cost of features you don't use.