Building a listed tool
Jianfeng Gao
Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Research, named behind the TokenEconomizer listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Jianfeng builds
TokenEconomizer B · Code & developer platforms
TokenEconomizer is an Apache-2.0 plugin from Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley that cuts repeat coding-agent cost in a repository by injecting learned facts, pruning unused tools and redirecting stuck turns. It runs in Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI and Pi.
Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Research, researched 30 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Aaron J. Li First author of TokenEconomizer, UC Berkeley
- Acar Tamersoy Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Security
- Achint Srivastava VP of Software Engineering, Office of the CTO; Decision-1 launch author
- Bill Gates Co-founder and technical adviser, Microsoft
- Bin Yu Co-author of TokenEconomizer, UC Berkeley
- Chandan Singh Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Research
- Charlotte Siska Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Security
- Dan Hellem Principal Product Manager, Azure DevOps
- Darrel Miller Partner API Architect
- Eric Imasogie Senior Product Manager; Microsoft Learn MCP server owner
- Ion Stoica Co-author of TokenEconomizer, UC Berkeley
- Jeevana Priya Inala Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Research
- Julie Strauss Vice President, AI Sales, Marketing and Incubations
- Kevin Scott Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft
- Michel Galley Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Research
- Paul Allen Co-founder, Microsoft, left day-to-day work there in 1983
- Pieter de Bruin Technical Program Manager; Learn partnerships and MCP integrations
- Sandeep K Sen Product Manager, Azure MCP and CoreAI
- Satya Nadella Chairman and CEO, Microsoft
- Shawn Henry Principal Group Product Manager; Product Lead, Microsoft Agent Framework
- Tianqi Zhang Principal Software Engineering Manager; Learn knowledge-discovery and MCP team
- Weijia Xu Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Research
- Xiaoyi Zhang Microsoft Mage Team; first author of the Mage-VL-Cowork technical report
- Yury Semikhatsky Principal Software Engineer; active Playwright MCP maintainer
Questions
Who is Jianfeng Gao?
Jianfeng Gao is co-author of TokenEconomizer at Microsoft Research.
What does Microsoft make?
Anchor Terminal lists TokenEconomizer from Microsoft. TokenEconomizer is an Apache-2.0 plugin from Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley that cuts repeat coding-agent cost in a repository by injecting learned facts, pruning unused tools and redirecting stuck turns. It runs in Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI and Pi.
How are Jianfeng's tools graded?
TokenEconomizer is graded B, 62.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (10)
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/TokenEconomizer/main/README.md
- https://tokeneconomizer.github.io/
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22732
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/TokenEconomizer/main/SECURITY.md
- https://www.microsoft.com/.well-known/security.txt
- https://web.archive.org/web/20261030105749/https://github.com/microsoft/TokenEconomizer
- https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/leadership/bill-gates
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen
- https://news.microsoft.com/source/exec/satya-nadella/
- https://news.microsoft.com/source/exec/kevin-scott/
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