Why TOON Matters for Agentic Infrastructure Automation

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.

More room for reasoning. Less waste.

Example

JSON (~120 tokens):

1{
2  "deployment": {
3    "regions": [
4      {"cloud": "aws", "region": "us-east-1", "services": ["api", "db"]},
5      {"cloud": "gcp", "region": "us-central1", "services": ["cache", "monitoring"]}
6    ]
7  }
8}
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TOON (~45 tokens):

deployment{cloud,region,services}:
aws,us-east-1,"api,db"
gcp,us-central1,"cache,monitoring"

Same data. 62% fewer tokens.

Why This Matters for DevOps Automation

Agentic infra workloads compound efficiency:

• Faster inference → faster deployments
• Lower costs → meaningful LLM savings
• More reasoning space → better architecture decisions
• Denser infra states per request → real-time agent execution

When an AI agent is managing Terraform runs, policies, drift detection, and multi-cloud topologies, efficiency isn’t optional—it’s architecture.

Our Hybrid Model

• JSON externally → APIs, integrations, DBs
• TOON internally → Agent <> LLM reasoning
• Lossless round-trip → No compromises

Think of it as HTTP compression for agentic infra systems.

For Infra Teams

This optimization directly upgrades your delivery pipeline:

• Faster agent decisions
• Lower AI operating costs
• Better security + cost analysis
• More resilient multi-cloud orchestration

TOON is one layer. Next: policy-aware reasoning, cost heuristics, real-time multi-cloud intelligence.

The Bigger Picture

Infrastructure is becoming agentic. That means your data format becomes part of your performance stack.

Legacy, human-oriented formats won’t scale. Token-efficient infra pipelines will.

We're building Flurit.ai around that principle.

If you’re scaling infra with AI agents—this is the future.

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