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Token Forensics for Agent Runs: Five Waste Signatures and the Order to Fix Them

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A team I worked with had a nightly agent job that was supposed to run for six hours. By 11 a.m. its daily allowance was gone, and the run had produced two usable summaries out of nine. Nobody could say which step ate the tokens. The router logs showed requests; they did not show cost. So the first…

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  1. 2026-10-20 09:44 · DEV Community — AI
    Token Forensics for Agent Runs: Five Waste Signatures and the Order to Fix Them

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