{"title":"Semantic Redundancy: Eliminating No-Value Turns","region":"Global","category":"Economics","description":"Stopping agents from wasting budget on conversational filler.","lastUpdated":"2026-02-23","steps":["Instruct agents to skip 'Politeness Headers' in API-only modes.","Use 'Prompt Compression' to strip 15% of instruction tokens.","Set a 'Utility Score' for every turn; kill turns with <0.1 value.","Enforce a 'Direct Answer' policy in the system instructions.","Cache common 'System Acknowledgments' to skip LLM generation."],"url":"https://checklist.day/semantic-redundancy-eliminating-no-value-turns"}