Engineering
Pause every routine, resume one by one, catch the tokenmaxxer
Routines burn most of your weekly usage and you cannot see which one from inside the bot.
What hurt
When Brett Davies hit 80% usage from routines in two days, JD (@joshuaday) shared a triage: pause every routine (paused ones spend nothing), resume them one at a time — frequent ones on long-chat bots first, because each run re-reads the conversation — then give each a stretch while you watch usage %. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
All pause → resume one → watch usage → isolate the drain.
Bots
Usage triage
Helps you list and pause/resume routines while you watch usage.
Plugins
None on day one. Follow the first-run steps.
Routines
None on the first run. Watch one manual pass first.
The prompt
This is a tip, not a pasteable system prompt. The author did not publish one. Follow the first-run steps.
First run
- 1Read https://x.com/joshuaday/status/2111575371221250348 (credit @joshuaday).
- 2Pause every routine — a paused routine spends nothing.
- 3Resume them one at a time; start with frequent ones on long-chat bots.
- 4Give each a stretch and watch usage % until the drain shows up.
- 5Keep the offender paused or spaced out; leave the rest running.
Approval fence
You choose which routines stay paused. Nothing sends while you triage.
What to tweak
Steal the pause-all then one-at-a-time resume test.
Source
JD / Shopify, CPG & AI @joshuaday · Original post
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