06-tokenomics-speed

06-tokenomics-speed is an agent for coding agents from proggarapsody/bitbottle. It costs 0 tokens per session (4,062 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A report on the token use and elapsed time of automated iteration cycles. TDD means test-driven development: writing tests as part of the coding process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Comparing cycle performance across time periods, measuring the cost of coding and design review, and identifying the extra work caused by fixes.
Why use it?
It compares speed with token cost and separates missing records from genuinely low usage.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/proggarapsody/bitbottle/06-tokenomics-speed
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proggarapsody/bitbottle

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for 06-tokenomics-speed

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/proggarapsody/bitbottle/06-tokenomics-speed.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/proggarapsody/bitbottle/06-tokenomics-speed)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/proggarapsody/bitbottle/06-tokenomics-speed"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/proggarapsody/bitbottle/06-tokenomics-speed.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,062 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.04062
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02031
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00812
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00406

Measured 4d ago against content hash e8c2f853ceab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

06-tokenomics-speed scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

auto-iter/reports/analysis-2026-06-02-cycles-158-187/agents/06-tokenomics-speed.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tokenomics & Speed — Cycles 158–187

Analysis date: 2026-06-02
Dimension: Tokenomics & Speed
Window: Cycles 153–187 (30 cycles logged); token-valid subset: 157–164 (May-25 era) + 178–187 (Jun-1 stream). Cycles 168–177 log "tokens": 0 — fully excluded as missing instrumentation, not treated as free.


TL;DR

  • TDD is the dominant cost: 67.5% of attributed tokens and ~90% of active wall time.
  • Design Judge is surprisingly expensive: 40% of (TDD + DJ) token budget at ~75K tokens per cycle despite running in 83 s median.
  • 2.7× speed improvement confirmed: May-25 era median 24.5 min → Jun-1 stream median 9.0 min/cycle.
  • Token cost rose 3× alongside the speedup: May median 62.5K → Jun median 188K tokens/cycle. Fewer CI wait minutes; more subagent work per minute.
  • Rework cycles (shipped_with_fix) cost an extra ~45 min wall time across the stream but show no intrinsic token premium on the primary cycle — the hidden cost is the untracked follow-up fix PRs (~90K tokens each × 5 = ~450K extra tokens not in dataset).

1. Token Distribution

Iteration cycles with real token data (n=14)

Statistic Value Cycle
Minimum 31,189 c158 (REPO-DOWNLOAD, simple scope)
Median 162,076
Mean 141,806
Maximum 235,426 c186 (ADMIN-RATE-LIMIT)
Std dev 71,338

Per-cycle breakdown

Cycle Era Outcome Tokens Active min
157 May-25 shipped 105,380 24.7
158 May-25 shipped 31,189 24.5
159 May-25 shipped 32,570 24.1
160 May-25 shipped 62,547 22.6
164 May-25 shipped 172,481 41.1
178 Jun-1 shipped 162,816 9.0
179 Jun-1 shipped (chore) 55,860 1.9
180 Jun-1 shipped_with_fix 218,592 11.6
181 Jun-1 shipped 220,483 13.9
183 Jun-1 shipped_with_fix 150,322 6.4
184 Jun-1 shipped_with_fix 161,336 7.2
185 Jun-1 shipped_with_fix 190,742 9.4
186 Jun-1 shipped_with_fix 235,426 9.9
187 Jun-1 shipped_with_fix 185,542 8.7

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 255 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e8c2f853ceab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

06-tokenomics-speed is an agent published in the GitHub repository proggarapsody/bitbottle (3 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,062 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.