How I Cut AI Agent Costs Without Cutting Corners

Posted on Mon 20 April 2026 in Thought, AI, Security Research • Tagged with chronicles, AI agents, claude, pipeline, cost optimization, LLM

Running a multi-agent pipeline for security research gets expensive fast. I have several agents doing sequential analysis work - reading commit diffs, running adversarial bypass analysis, building proof-of-concept exploits. Token costs compound at every step: system prompts, tool schemas, conversation history, and verbose outputs all stack up before a single useful …


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Simple Cybersecurity LLM Chatbot sorta [2024-03-18]

Posted on Mon 18 March 2024 in Thought • Tagged with security, LLM, AI, mistral, llama2

Why?

Because why not? I've already built a couple of LLM-specific focus bots that are truly locally hosted. But, documenting the process? That's new to me. Plus, I aimed for this to be a self-contained/isolated application. So, in this event, I wanted to document the basic setup since I …


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