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ThomasLangbroek/frugal

Cost-optimised agent router for Claude Code: sends every sub-task to the cheapest model that can do it, and escalates only on verified failure.

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    • Frugal: routing Claude Code sub-tasks to the cheapest capable model, enforced with hooks and measured per run

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