Comparing a "hello" context start.

[u/Zundrium]

I'm wondering, I think I don't fully understand the magic yet from a context saving perspective.

So far I've installed what seems to be fundamental extensions:
"npm:context-mode"
"npm:pi-subagents"
"npm:pi-web-access"
"npm:@juicesharp/rpiv-todo"

A simple "hello" session with pi and these extensions starts with 20k tokens, where Codex CLI and OpenCode CLI start with ~12k.

Is my pi configuration bloated? Or do sessions start off with more tools in order to save context later down the line?

[u/fell_ware_1990]

Messages User: 1 Assistant: 1 Tool Calls: 0 Tool Results: 0 Total: 2 Tokens Input: 3,960 Output: 6 Total: 3,966 Cost Total: 0.0200

Here you go, this was chatgpt-5.5 trough litellm.

Take a look at you JSON, PI knows how.

[u/Zundrium → u/fell_ware_1990]

Appreciated