Agent loops re-send the full context every turn, so cost grows super-linearly. A 15-turn Opus 4.7 task is ~$2.25, not the ~$0.68 you'd budget. How to instrument per-task, per-engineer, per-repo token cost.
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Agent loops re-send the full context every turn, so cost grows super-linearly. A 15-turn Opus 4.7 task is ~$2.25, not the ~$0.68 you'd budget. How to instrument per-task, per-engineer, per-repo token cost.
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