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The essential difference between an Agent and traditional Chat is that an Agent must resend its complete working memory (skill descriptions, historical tool calls, file contents, reasoning traces) to the model every round, while the actual generated reply is often only a few hundred words; this 'long input, short output' pattern makes the Token bill almost entirely determined by the input.
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