New Alibaba AI framework skips loading every tool, cutting agent token use 99%

Every team building agents right now is quietly panicking about the token bill once you hand a model thousands of possible tools to choose from, so a 99 percent cut in overhead is not a minor optimization, it is the difference between a demo and a product you can ship at scale. The bigger idea, that queries need tools fetched and sequenced rather than dumped in all at once, will probably end up as a default pattern everyone copies within a year. Unglamorous plumbing work like this ages better than most flashy launches.