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The Transcript Is the Bill
Community description: An agent job is not one request, and pricing it as one request is how a...
Dev.to | Sep 13, 2026 | Quinn Li
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Every tool turn reprints the prior messages. Free capacity is the wrong bet when the loop cannot abort. Summarize tool results before they re-enter the transcript.
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