llm-connect/llm_connect/_token_estimator.py

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"""
Rough token estimation for backends that don't return usage data.
Uses the ~4 characters per token heuristic common across English LLM tokenizers.
"""
def estimate_tokens(text: str) -> int:
"""Estimate the number of tokens in *text*.
This is intentionally coarse it is only used by the Claude Code CLI
adapter where real token counts are unavailable.
"""
if not text:
return 0
return max(1, len(text) // 4)