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Lesson 5: Under the Hood

Tokens in Lumen

Have you noticed the token numbers shown in Lumen?

You can look at these in the Lumen window below.

Generate a haiku and see if you can find the tokens sent to the LLM and that are sent back.

The orange box in the screenshot below highlights the number of tokens sent to the LLM (GPT-5.2 in this example) and the number of tokens it sent back.

The token count shown in the Lumen interface

In the screenshot, there were 229 tokens sent to the LLM and 25 tokens sent back.