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Letter to Pre-Loop-Me: Build the Token Ledger Before the Agent Runs

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Dear pre-loop me, You will lose a day. Not to a hard bug. To bookkeeping you skipped. You will point an agent at a task, watch it loop twelve turns, and have no idea what it spent. Then you will try again on a different machine and learn nothing new. Here is the letter I wish I had received, writte…

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  1. 2026-10-20 09:42 · DEV Community — AI
    Letter to Pre-Loop-Me: Build the Token Ledger Before the Agent Runs

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