{
  "id": 14040460,
  "title": "Stop paying for old chat history: a free BYOK VS Code AI agent that compresses long sessions",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/stop-paying-for-old-chat-history-a-free-byok-vs-code-ai-agent-that",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-12T20:41:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/makayis_90942586425f8f6bb/stop-paying-for-old-chat-history-a-free-byok-vs-code-ai-agent-that-compresses-long-sessions-5h17"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Long AI coding chats get expensive for a simple reason: every turn resends the whole conversation, so turn 30 costs far more than turn 3. I built CodeCook to fix that. It's a free, MIT-licensed VS Code extension (disclosure: I'm the author). What it does Summarizes older turns and bulky tool output so you stop paying for them again Keeps your plan intact across summaries Shows token and cost…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}