Some of you read my long posts. Some of you scroll past and I don't blame you. Today you get a tool instead. It's called GAUNTLET, and it came out of a simple annoyance: I could see exactly what my AI work cost me, and never once could I see why. Usage dashboards hand you one number with everything lumped into it. Which skill is expensive? Where did the tokens actually go? Silence. So I built the thing that answers the second question. Point GAUNTLET at one skill or agent. It rebuilds the real workflow from transcripts already sitting on your machine, then walks the run step by step and shows where the tokens went: the re-reads, the bloated context, the steps that never needed to run at all. It grades the run, flags the heavy spots, and ranks what to look at first. Leads, not proven wins. It proposes, it never rewrites your skill. It reads like an audit, not a dashboard. I pointed it at my own underwriting agent, fixed what it flagged, then re-ran the numbers and found I had cut that agent's token use roughly in half, on every run from here on. That matters even if you're on a flat plan and never see a bill. Wasted tokens eat your rate-limit window, and a workflow that reloads the same file four times poisons its own context long before it runs out of room. No API key. Nothing leaves your machine, and there's no network call for it to make: one stdlib Python file, zero dependencies, MIT licensed, and free to fork or gut however you like. Somewhere north of 50 of these are sitting on my drive. I kept them to myself for no good reason. That changes now, starting with the handful I reach for every week. Honest admission: I feel like a kid in a candy store. Plugged into the Matrix, suddenly I know Kung Fu, and anything I can picture I can go build by dinner. Still hasn't worn off. Point it at your own setup this week and tell me what it finds. Everything here is just my opinion. I could be wrong, I could be right. It is intended solely for entertainment and to provoke thought, not as legal, financial, or investment advice. You can't rely on it and frankly, should probably not rely on some post by a complete stranger. Or maybe you should - who knows? Do your own diligence before you act on any of it. Or don't. It all rests with you.