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agentwaste

Your coding agent quietly burns tokens on re-caching, re-reading and retry loops. agentwaste reads the logs it already keeps, shows you exactly where the waste is, and how to stop it.
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Usage trackers tell you how much. agentwaste tells you why.

Section titled “Usage trackers tell you how much. agentwaste tells you why.”

Finds the waste

Six detectors for the patterns that burn tokens for nothing: idle cache rebuilds, uncached context, re-reads, duplicate lookups, huge outputs and retry loops.

Tells you the fix

Every finding comes with its cost, the worst offenders (files, tools, models) and a specific change to make.

Private by design

Runs locally and read-only. No network requests, no account, no setup.

Shareable card

A one-file summary of your grade and top waste, with nothing private in it.

On the author’s own month of Claude Code use, about a third of all input cost was re-caching context after stepping away for more than five minutes. Most people have no idea it’s happening.