perf(seer): Trim whitespace from ASCII snapshot to reduce token usage#110273
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- The ASCII grid sent as on_page_context to Seer was emitting every row at full viewport width and preserving all blank rows, wasting lots of characters on spaces (depends on what page it's on). Blank spaces waste tokens (and therefore cost/latency) without carrying any information, reducing the useful context budget available for the LLM to reason about. These changes still preserve the structure of the page.
- Mitigating this by striping trailing spaces, removing the common leading indent from the nav-bar shift, and removing blank rows.
- Sample conversation with lots of blank space
The ASCII grid sent as on_page_context to Seer was emitting every row at full viewport width and preserving all blank rows, wasting ~80-90% of characters on spaces. Strip trailing spaces, remove the common leading indent from the nav-bar shift, and collapse consecutive blank rows into single blank lines. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Blank rows carry no useful information for the LLM. Remove them entirely rather than collapsing consecutive runs into single blanks. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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