Declutter Your AI Agent: Four Steps to Reduce Context Bloat and Save Tokens
HolmeBengt · reddit · 2026-08-14
This post explains how to reduce context bloat in AI agents like Hermes. The author identifies four areas where junk accumulates: memory, toolsets, skills, and cron jobs, all loaded at session start. Provides copy-paste prompts to: 1) shrink memory to 1300 characters; 2) disable unused toolsets; 3) disable unused skills; 4) disable dead cron jobs. Nothing is deleted, just disabled or moved, saving tokens and improving speed.
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