Token Cost Optimization for AI Agents: 7 Patterns...

Token Cost Optimization for AI Agents: 7 Patterns That Cut Our Bill by 73% Six months ago our monthly LLM bill at RapidClaw hit a number I'd rather not print. We were running production AI agents across customer workloads, and every "let's just add one more tool call" was quietly compounding into a four-figure surprise on the invoice. I'm Tijo Bear, founder of RapidClaw. We build infrastructure for teams who want to ship AI agents without becoming full-time prompt engineers. After spending a qua