Wattage: A token-spend profiler and cost-regression gate for AI agents
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A token-spend profiler and cost-regression gate for agents is a tell that teams are getting surprised by inference bills—governance is shifting from dashboards to automated spend guardrails in CI/CD. If you’re shipping agents into production, wire cost checks into your deployment pipeline before finance does it for you.
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