Token efficiency
Stop paying to re-read your repo.
Compact, structured context isn't just cleaner — it's cheaper. Fewer tokens per task on cloud models, and tight enough to fit the context window of a small local one.
Where the tokens go
Pasted files, long prompts, and context re-explained every session. You pay to re-read the same repo over and over, and the signal drowns in noise.
What Flash sends instead
A compact brief distilled from deterministic analysis — the board model, the relevant symbols and graphs, the architecture — not the raw tree.
Context that persists
Project memory carries across bring-up, integration, and debugging, so each task builds on the last instead of starting from zero.
The payoff
On a cloud model, fewer tokens per task means a smaller bill for the same work — every session, across a whole team. On a local model, compact context is what makes the difference between fitting the window and falling out of it.
The point isn't a smaller prompt for its own sake. It's spending the model's budget on reasoning about your firmware instead of paying it to skim files it has already seen.