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A Triage Agent on a Token Budget: A Free-Tier Case Study in Tool-Call Accounting

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Last month, a small open-source repo I help maintain crossed 40 new issues in a week. Triage took four hours of manual work: reading, labeling, prioritizing, replying. I wanted an agent to do the first pass. The catch: the project has no cloud credits, no GPU, and no budget line for AI. Zero dollar…

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  1. 2026-08-25 04:42 · DEV Community — AI
    A Triage Agent on a Token Budget: A Free-Tier Case Study in Tool-Call Accounting

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