# 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.

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## Wortins' read

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.

## Source

[Read the full story at VentureBeat](https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/new-alibaba-ai-framework-skips-loading-every-tool-cutting-agent-token-use-99)

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