Why Your Coding Agents Burn Tokens in the Dark
We handed our terminals over to autonomous coding agents, only to discover our token bills were compounding in silence. Here is how I built Thermal to track 14 agent harnesses w...
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The Skill Bloat Dilemma: Why Your Coding Agent Can't Handle 400 Skills
Centralizing agent skills in global vaults creates a brutal trilemma: catastrophic prompt token bloat, silent alphabetical truncation past fifty tools, and the total blindspot of static per-project pinning. Here is how we solved it with grounded local catalogs, just-in-time MCP retrieval, and kernel-grade POSIX file locking.
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