# Reducing AI token usage with category filtering

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reducing-ai-token-usage-with-category-filtering/405510
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [June 17, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reducing-ai-token-usage-with-category-filtering/405510 "2026-06-17T14:45:23Z")
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### Author: ![alefattorini](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alefattorini/32/119928_2.png) [@alefattorini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alefattorini)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reducing-ai-token-usage-with-category-filtering/405510/1 "2026-06-17T14:45:23Z")

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I aspire to engage the bot in interrogation, ensuring it exclusively considers posts from a specific category. My objective is to curtail the utilization of AI tokens and retrieve information solely from a designated category of posts. How might I achieve this?

p.s. I’m using official AI plugin

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reducing-ai-token-usage-with-category-filtering/405510/2 "2026-06-17T17:09:41Z")

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When your agent uses the default “Search” tool, the Agent Edit form will present this

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/e/e/9ee685383ae0f4931f4545abf63bf5d8c65bd9a5.jpeg)

Limiting it to a specific category is even the example we use on the form help text.