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Prompt Compression Skill

Token-efficient prompt compression techniques for cost optimization

Installable skillMITBy a5c-aiUpdated Oct 30, 2026
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  domains: [domain:software-engineering]
  specializations: [specialization:ai-agents-conversational]
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# Prompt Compression Skill

## Capabilities

- Implement token-efficient prompt compression
- Design context pruning strategies
- Configure selective context inclusion
- Implement LLMLingua-style compression
- Design summary-based compression
- Create compression quality metrics

## Target Processes

- cost-optimization-llm
- agent-performance-optimization

## Implementation Details

### Compression Techniques

1. **LLMLingua**: Token-level compression
2. **Summary Compression**: LLM-based summarization
3. **Selective Context**: Relevant section extraction
4. **Token Pruning**: Remove low-importance tokens
5. **Document Filtering**: Pre-retrieval filtering

### Configuration Options

- Compression ratio targets
- Quality threshold settings
- Token budget constraints
- Compression model selection
- Evaluation metrics

### Best Practices

- Monitor quality vs compression tradeoff
- Test with representative prompts
- Set appropriate compression ratios
- Validate compressed prompt quality
- Track cost savings

### Dependencies

- llmlingua (optional)
- tiktoken
- transformers

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