I counted two CLI-agent invocations. Claude experienced dozens of turns and millions of cache reads. The useful lesson was not merely to spend less, but to make agent work bounded, deterministic, and honest about failure.
A Swamp model that turns a few trip details into a categorized packing list, previews before it touches Todoist, and asks before it commits.
I wanted Hermes to stop improvising and start reusing the models and workflows we had already built. The setup was short. Proving it worked took wrong homes, hidden errors, a broken registry, and one extension Hermes finally published and ran through Discord.