I Built a CLI to Stop Misconfigured AI Agents from Burning Money

Most AI agent discussions fixate on model pricing. That matters, but it is only part of the bill. In practice, a surprising amount of waste comes from bad configuration: oversized context windows expensive fallback chains stale auth profiles idle heartbeat burn broken plugin hygiene drift after updates risky skills, hooks, and extensions nobody has reviewed properly In other words, the problem is often not the model. It is the mess around the model. That is why I built Agent Optimizer, a CLI for auditing, optimizing, and securing OpenClaw deployments.