Cost-Effective Multi-Agent AI: Separating Reasoning from Execution

Building AI agents that actually work in production is expensive. Every API call to GPT-4 or Claude costs money, and when you're running agentic loops with multiple tool calls, those costs add up fast. But what if you could use expensive models only where they truly matter, and run everything else locally for free? That's exactly what I built. A multi-agent system that uses powerful cloud LLMs for…