A background service that enforces per-session token budgets on OpenClaw agents, auto-prunes context when limits approach, and reports cost per task
OpenClaw retains all conversation history by default, growing from 5K tokens in round 1 to 150K by round 10. Users routinely hit $50-100/day in API costs running stock configurations. Memory consumption climbs to 28GB by day three. Existing tools show token usage after the fact or add a kill-switch, but nothing actively manages the context window in real time by pruning low-value messages, enforcing per-session budgets, and attributing cost to individual tasks. This service sits between OpenClaw and the LLM provider, intercepts every request, enforces configurable token budgets, and auto-prunes context using a relevance scorer before the request hits the API.
Demand Breakdown
Social Proof 3 sources
Gap Assessment
3 tools exist (OpenClaw Firewall, OpenClaw Token Monitor Chrome Extension, token-budget-monitor skill) but gaps remain: No context auto-pruning, no semantic relevance scoring, no per-task cost attribution, no cache-hit tracking; Browser-only, no server-side enforcement, no context pruning, no multi-session tracking.
Features4 agent-ready prompts
Competitive LandscapeFREE
| Product | Does | Missing |
|---|---|---|
| OpenClaw Firewall | Gateway layer between OpenClaw and model providers that tracks token usage in real time, sets per-agent budgets, caps retries, and blocks abnormal requests | No context auto-pruning, no semantic relevance scoring, no per-task cost attribution, no cache-hit tracking |
| OpenClaw Token Monitor Chrome Extension | Calculates real-time token usage in browser and acts as a kill-switch when a pre-set dollar limit is reached | Browser-only, no server-side enforcement, no context pruning, no multi-session tracking |
| token-budget-monitor skill | Lightweight Node-based OpenClaw skill that tracks per-job input/output tokens and enforces daily and per-job limits from config | Skill-level only (no proxy interception), no context pruning, no cost attribution dashboard, no cache tracking |
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