The Manifesto
The Tokenminning Manifesto is the founding document of the tokenminning movement — community-maintained and versioned on GitHub . It makes the case for delivering equivalent model outcomes while consuming fewer tokens across system prompts, retrieved context, intermediate reasoning, and multi-step agent runs.
The term entered mainstream usage in 2026.
The Constitution turns these ideas into binding production rules: deployment gates, spending caps, and permanent usage records. The Manifesto answers a different question — why the movement exists, what habits it opposes, and how teams should think before they instrument anything.
Practice · Constitution · GitHub
The chapters
| Chapter | Subject |
|---|---|
| I | The production gap — why inference spend drifts before anyone notices |
| II | Tokenmaxxing — the unnamed default |
| III | Tokenminning — what the movement advocates |
| IV | Scale, energy, and unit economics |
| V | Commitments |
How this relates to the Constitution
| Document | Role on this wiki |
|---|---|
| Manifesto | Founding document — philosophy, economics, and cultural framing |
| Constitution | Enforceable rules for production systems |
| Practice | Implementation guides — techniques, order, and savings ranges |
For techniques, start with Practice. For guardrails that survive review and automation, use the Constitution.