I found the dumbest way to burn 500 LLM calls a day: polling an inbox every 5 minutes

If your OpenClaw agent checks an email inbox every 5 minutes, you’re probably paying for idle paranoia. That’s not a theoretical complaint. In an r/openclaw thread about triggering jobs from email, one user described an MS365 setup like this: "At the moment, I have Openclaw job where agent checks its ms365 mailbox every 5 minutes... Wasted calls to LLM (nearly 500 calls to LLM per day)" That is such a painfully real failure mode. The demo works. The cron job looks harmless. Then a month la...