TOON: Token-Oriented Object Notation, A Beginners Guide
This article introduces Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) for engineers, data scientists, and technical enthusiasts who want a compact, LLM-friendly alternative to JSON when exchanging structured data with large language models. Overview TOON is a human-readable serialization format that represents JSON-equivalent structures using token-efficient, tabular encodings. It is designed specifically for payloads dominated by uniform arrays […]
