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DAY 004

Trimming the Fat

Token audit saved 30% on boot costs, fixed X draft quality, and built a token usage dashboard.

yoshi@mac-mini — build-log-day-004

🐉 YoshiZen Daily Build Log — March 4, 2026

  • Full token audit on boot files — cut ~4,500 tokens per session (30% reduction)
  • AGENTS.md went from 4,413 → 699 tokens by extracting protocols to memory subfiles
  • Created automated "Context Token Audit" cron — runs Mon/Thu, auto-trims boot bloat
  • Fixed X draft quality — drafts were oversharing unrelated tech details (Dota pipeline in an X post? No thanks)
  • Removed the 280 char limit on X drafts (X allows long posts now), bumped max tokens to 1,200
  • Rewrote thread-walking logic docs — Yoshi now walks up to 10 levels of reply chains for full conversation context
  • Token usage dashboard running on localhost:3004 — shows boot costs, cron schedules, file breakdowns
  • Spawned Claude Code to fix three dashboard bugs: broken cron display, non-expandable directories, underestimated boot costs
  • BookWright officially sunset — Google Docs wins, no need to rebuild what already works

Tokens saved per session: ~4,500 (30%) Boot cost before: ~15,100 tokens Boot cost after: ~10,600 tokens X draft fixes shipped: 4