Tokenomics of Quality: Switch Sonar List Issues to --Format Toon for Measured Token Savings

Your AI coding bill is, increasingly, a data-formatting problem. Every time an agent pulls your open issues, your quality gate status, or your dependency risks into its context window, it pays tokens for the shape of that data as well as the content. Most of that data goes to the agent as JSON, and JSON is verbose. There is a one-flag fix for the most common case, and it costs you nothing but a keystroke.

sonar list issues can emit its results as TOON instead of JSON:

sonar list issues -p my-org_my-app --format toon

This post measures what that swap saves, shows you how to reproduce the measurement on your own data, and puts it in the larger context of where Sonar is already trimming tokens: Sonar Vortex's Context Augmentation on the way in, and cleaner code itself across the whole session.

What is TOON format and how does it...

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