Add OpenUI token cost analysis#59
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Signed-off-by: Alex Roesler <183014507+Aroesler1@users.noreply.github.com>
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Pull request overview
Adds new written content analyzing output-token costs for equivalent UI fixtures across OpenUI Lang, compact JSON payloads, and AI SDK-style tool-call envelopes, including a benchmark chart asset.
Changes:
- Added a benchmark-focused article with token counts, cost projections, and discussion of tradeoffs (structure, tool-call wrapping, streaming, component-library context).
- Added a self-contained SVG bar chart visualizing the benchmark totals.
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| Articles/The Token Cost of Beautiful AI - OpenUI Lang vs AI SDK vs JSON.md | New article with methodology, benchmark table, cost math, and narrative comparison. |
| assets/openui-token-cost-comparison.svg | New SVG chart illustrating total token counts and relative overhead. |
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| OpenUI source references for the UI-native path: | ||
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| - `packages/lang-core/src/parser/parser.ts` | ||
| - `packages/lang-core/src/parser/statements.ts` | ||
| - `packages/react-lang/src/Renderer.tsx` | ||
| - `packages/react-lang/src/hooks/useOpenUIState.ts` |
Signed-off-by: Alex Roesler <183014507+Aroesler1@users.noreply.github.com>
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Addressed the review note about source references in commit Revalidated after the change:
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Confidence Score: 5/5 - Safe to MergeSafe to merge — this PR adds OpenUI token cost analysis functionality with no identified issues across the reviewed code. The automated review found zero critical, significant, or medium-severity concerns, and there are no unresolved pre-existing comments that would block merging. The PR appears well-scoped and introduces token cost tracking capability in a clean manner. Key Findings:
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Summary
Validation
Issue: #4
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