Context Highlights launches agent web extraction, 97% more token-efficient than Codex
ycombinator · x · 2026-10-02
- Context Highlights introduces web extraction for agents: given a URL and a query, it extracts relevant passages with surrounding context to help agents interpret them.
- The team claims it's 97% more token-efficient than Codex. The core argument: naive fetch/scrape tools pollute agent context and multiply costs; compaction helps, but keeping irrelevant text out of the context window in the first place is better.
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