Be explicit about accessing state in ways that are token efficient. - #76
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We currently do not provide explicit guidance to agents guiding them on how to access Terraform state. State files stored on disk and returned via HCP TF/TFE API's are in the pretty-printed JSON where-as those returned via
terraform show -jsonare compact JSON. Reading compact JSON uses ~ 15% fewer tokens than pretty-printed JSON as it does away with whitespace and other formatting considerations for humans. This PR explicitly directs agents to use the cheaper methods to read state in the skills where agents are most likely to need to read state.