Your OpenClaw Bill Is Bleeding Tokens. Here’s What We Measured (opens in new tab)

Memory bloat, compaction loss, and a retrieval-first path: ~32% less token spend on the AppWorld dev split — without dumbing the agent down. Developers who actually ship with LLMs know one truth by heart: the context window is not free. Every extra thousand tokens nudges the invoice up and the latency out. If you run OpenClaw (an agent stack that leans hard on long-horizon sessions), that anxiety gets concrete fast. Picture this: last week you spent two hours with your agent debugging product...