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The $25 Challenge: what can an agent build before the meter stops?

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Claude Code is the best agent harness I've used. It also only talks to one provider, and it never answers the two questions you eventually ask: how much did that session cost, and can I run the cheap parts on a cheap model? I built gremlord to fix both. It's a thin local router around the unmodifie…

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    The $25 Challenge: what can an agent build before the meter stops?

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