Show HN: MCP server gives your agent a budget (save tokens, get smarter results) https://ift.tt/ykMrxQ7
Show HN: MCP server gives your agent a budget (save tokens, get smarter results) As a consultant I foot my own Cursor bills, and last month was $1,263. Opus is too good not to use, but there's no way to cap spending per session. After blowing through my Ultra limit, I realized how token-hungry Cursor + Opus really is. It spins up sub-agents, balloons the context window, and suddenly, a task I expected to cost $2 comes back at $8. My bill kept going up, but was I really going to switch to a worse model? No. So I built l6e: an MCP server that gives your agent the ability to budget. It works with Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Openclaw, and every MCP-compatible application. Saving money was why I built it, but what surprised me was that the process of budgeting changed the agent's behavior. An agent that understands the limitations of the resources doesn't try to speculatively increase the context window with extra files. It doesn't try to reach every possible API. The age...