AI
Why TOON Matters for Agentic Infrastructure Automation
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Ashu
November 12, 2025
2 min read
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At Flurit.ai, our AI agents generate infra-as-code, orchestrate multi-cloud deployments, validate policies, and respond to incidents—all through continuous dialog with LLMs. That means every token matters.
The Problem
JSON is great for APIs, but terrible for LLM efficiency. It carries 50%+ token overhead—quotes, brackets, repetitive keys—all noise, zero intelligence.
When your agent is shipping infrastructure in real time, that overhead slows everything down.
The TOON Shift
We upgraded Flurit’s internal data layer to TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) for LLM-bound payloads.
Result? 30–60% fewer tokens on infrastructure manifests, policy arrays, and system states.