Operationalizing Long‑Context Agents: Cost‑Effective, Verifiable Memory at Scale
Practical patterns to run multi‑million‑token agents: KV‑cache grafting, partition‑prompt‑aggregate, long‑context replay, and audit‑first memory.
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Cost Optimization
4 essays filed under Cost Optimization.
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Metering Agent Work: A Practical Model to Prevent Token Leaks & Cost Spikes
A practical metering model for agents: bill by work units, not tokens. Prevent leaks, rein in costs, and keep provenance using an enforceable boundary.
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When SaaS AI Tooling Breaks Your Budget: A Self‑Host Playbook
Rising SaaS AI costs? An engineering-first playbook to shift workloads to a staged, hybrid self-host strategy without disrupting the business.
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Push Agent Skill Distillation to Devices, Not Just the Cloud
Argues for hybrid agent architectures that distill signed skills to devices, cutting cloud costs, reducing data exposure, and escaping platform gatekeeping.
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