The Token Waste Problem: Why your AI Agents shouldn't evaluate permissions

We are burning millions of API tokens on problems that if statements solved 20 years ago. I speak with developers building Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) every day, and I keep seeing the same massive architectural anti-pattern: Routing everything through the AI model. Need to check an agent's permissions? "Ask the LLM." Need to route a message? "Ask the LLM." Need to validate a data schema? "Ask the LLM." Language models are extraordinary reasoning engines. But they are also expensive, probabilistic,