How I Slashed My AI Agent Token Costs by 90% (And Survived a Multi-Provider Docker Nightmare)

1Key Takeaways

• My autonomous coding agent setup in Discord was running beautifully, but my monthly token bill was starting to look like a phone number.
• Every time my agent read a git diff, examined a database structure, or ran a deep directory search, it dumped thousands of lines of raw text into the conversation history.
• Since coding agents operate in multi-turn loops, reading this accumulated "context bloat" over and over quickly became incredibly slow and expensive.
• That's when I found Headroom AI , an….