Notes from the
control plane.
On the economics of coding agents, token compression, model routing, and building neutral infrastructure for the agent era.
Why agent token costs are the new cloud bill
Coding agents scale spend with productivity. Here's the anatomy of an agent invoice, why it grows so fast, and the three levers that bring it back under control.
How compression + routing cut spend 60–90%
A technical walkthrough of the two techniques doing the heavy lifting in Cohesor — token compression and complexity-based routing — with the real per-token math.
The MCP gateway: one front door for every tool
How we built a governed, audited broker for 50+ MCP servers — and why per-agent scopes matter more than the tool list.
Policy at line rate: governance in under 1ms
PII redaction, injection detection, budget caps and scope checks — all before a token moves. Here's how we keep it under a millisecond.
Lossless compression: same meaning, fewer tokens
The four techniques behind our 53% average token reduction — and why semantic similarity is the only metric that matters.
The CFO's guide to agent spend
How to model, forecast and govern AI agent costs — with the exact metrics we'd put on a board deck.
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