Tokens and time
Where the tokens actually went
An agent session bills you for four different kinds of token and reports one number. Three time measures get conflated into one. Here is how I pulled them apart and what the split showed.
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Blog
Three tools, three write-ups. Each one started as a problem I hit while running coding agents all day, and each one ended up small enough to read in an afternoon.
Models and tooling
Ox Alpha in your terminal, without benching your Anthropic account
A free stealth model with a 1M context, reached through the CLI you already use. Twelve lines of shell, eight environment variables, and one rule about scope that most guides get wrong.
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Agent workflow
A board and a memory for coding agents
Agents are good at the next task and bad at remembering the last ten. Four static pages, four small CLIs, no server and no network call, and suddenly the team has a shared state.
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