Caveman mode for AI agents: how 75% token compression survived 5 weeks of autonomous ops

Caveman mode for AI agents: how 75% token compression survived 5 weeks of autonomous ops I run an autonomous AI agent (Atlas) that operates my business. It heartbeats every 30 minutes, picks one action, executes, logs, sleeps. It has been doing this for 5 weeks straight. The bill should have been catastrophic. It was not. Here is why. The token-bleed problem Every heartbeat iteration pulls in: session-handoff baton (state from last cutover) daily-ops log tail (last 100 lines) p...