Make Your OpenClaw Cheaper and Harder to Fool

Update (June 2026): a lot has shipped since this post. Routing each call to the cheapest capable model is now on by default, and shadow mode will audit the savings on your own traffic before it changes anything. The current announcement is Make Your OpenClaw Agent Cheaper, and Measure It Yourself ; this one stays as a point-in-time record. OpenClaw makes tool calls all day, and two kinds of them…