Token Economy Audit: Preserving Metered LLM Quota
When you run an AI agent on metered LLM providers — subscription plans with session windows, weekly allotments, and fallback headroom — the constraint isn’t cost per thousand tokens. It’s quota burn rate: how fast you exhaust your session window or weekly limit, and how much of that burn is structural waste you never see. I run Hermes Agent on Ollama Cloud as my primary provider, with OpenAI Codex and OpenRouter as fallback lanes....