Comment by pyfd

The part of my harness that earns its tokens isn't instructions, it's the bits that take claims out of the model's hands.

Two examples from daily use on a small business's systems. Telling it to batch browser calls in the system prompt didn't hold; a hook that denies the seventh consecutive single call did. Telling it to record which machine did a piece of work didn't hold either; having the CLI stamp the hostname did.

Both are nearly free in tokens, and that layer is where the reliability actually came from. The prompt-size argument skips straight past it.