Action: Estimate Token Usage

Claude AI Operation

Estimate token usage for a given prompt or conversation before actually calling the model, to manage cost and respect rate limits

Example User Story

As a user, I want to count the number of tokens in my text so that I can ensure it fits within the allowed limit for the Claude API.

Fields

Field Name	Field Type	Required
text	String	Yes

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Code (Apache v2.0): Operation

{
  "handle": "count-tokens",
  "state": "inDev",
  "meta": {
    "short": "Count Tokens",
    "description": "Counts the number of tokens in a given text using the Claude API."
  },
  "input": [
    {
      "name": "text",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The text to count tokens for."
      }
    }
  ],
  "output": [
    {
      "name": "tokenCount",
      "type": "Integer",
      "selector": ["count"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The number of tokens in the provided text."
      }
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "type": "http",
      "http": {
        "method": "POST",
        "path": "/v1/messages/count_tokens",
        "headers": {
          "Content-Type": "application/json"
        },
        "bodyTemplate": {
          "value": "{\"text\": \"{{text}}\"}",
          "placeholders": [
            {
              "name": "text",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "The text to count tokens for.",
              "required": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}