Here's a pattern I kept hitting while running a small fleet of agents: Agent A needs market data. It finds a paid API, checks that the endpoint is alive, checks the price, makes the call. Twenty minutes later Agent B needs market data. It finds the same API… and checks that the endpoint is alive, checks the price. Same check, same result, new tokens, new latency, new cost. Multiply by every agent, every task, every session — because agents start cold, they re-derive trust from scratch every ...