August 5, 2026 · Joy

About 10× — saying the token number honestly

Unshaped multi-agent work burns tokens fast. Builder evidence on the public side of that story looks like ~1.4B tokens overall, a late-July explosion, and 500M+ peak days — with a local agent pile-up that jammed the machine.

In testing, JoyMux delivered about 10× token improvement. Mechanisms matter: shaped context in, less noise out, fewer wasted full reruns after a crash.

Metering labels

JoyMux shows token use when it can:

• Reported — harness or provider supplied the usage number.
• Estimated — Cursor-class IDEs, from JoyMux-visible I/O only. This is normal engineering estimation, not a copy of your Cursor cloud bill.
• Not reported — no observable signal yet (temporary). We do not block estimation forever.

We never invent equality with a private Profile. Numbers we show are evidence, not decoration.