pxpipe: The Open-Source Tool That Hides Text in PNGs to Slash AI Token Costs by 70%

While the AI world waits for the next frontier model drop, the open-source community just shipped something quietly revolutionary. pxpipe — a new open-source tool released on July 4, 2026 — hides text payloads inside PNG images to slash Claude Code and Claude Fable 5 token costs by up to 70% . How It Works The idea is deceptively simple. When you're working with Claude Code or Fable 5 on large codebases, every file you attach consumes tokens — and tokens cost money. pxpipe uses steganography to…