HELPER 06 · DELEGATION TAX

The invoice vs. the tax

The subagent's direct spend is the invoice. The carrying cost of its result in your parent context is the tax. Move the sliders.

Research swarm, critic pipeline, or parallel explorers.

A terse summary is ~500 tok. A detailed critic report is 5-10K. An unconstrained analysis: 15-20K.

Carrying cost of delegation results vs. direct agent spend over turns Two lines: a flat dashed line showing the one-time direct cost of the subagents (the invoice), and a rising solid line showing the cumulative carrying cost of their results in the parent context (the tax). The tax overtakes the invoice within a few turns. $0 – – – – Cost ($) 0 5 10 15 20 25 Turns after agents complete – –
Carrying cost (the tax)
Direct agent spend (the invoice)
Total result tokens
25K tok
Sitting in parent context
Invoice (direct)
~$0.38
One-time agent spend
Tax (25 turns)
~$9.75
Carrying cost in parent
Annual projection · current settings × 1 swarm/day × 250 workdays
Carrying tokens / year
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Annual tax / dev
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Tax : invoice ratio
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How much more the tax costs