My experience - API to openAI codex - super smart agent, no skill - no problem, he can create his own skills. Created a separate calendar for me and was planning my meetings, was filling in pdf documents for me and suggested to do company taxes. API costed me approx 10 usd per day, so I switched to openAI gpt5-mini and suddenly my agent became dumb. Cannot use nostr, says he cannot install any dependencies and I have to run cli commands myself. But cost is like 1 USD per day. For now I put it on hold as I need to understand if I want to pay 10usd per day or not. Probably you can optimise it and do small tasks via cheaper models, haven’t really digged into it. My feeling is - in the next 2 month we will have openclaw-like agent from one of the companies with 20-30 USD monthly flat rate, so the problem will be solved.
My experience - API to openAI codex - super smart agent, no skill - no problem, he can create his own skills. Created a separate calendar for me and was planning my meetings, was filling in pdf documents for me and suggested to do company taxes. API costed me approx 10 usd per day, so I switched to openAI gpt5-mini and suddenly my agent became dumb. Cannot use nostr, says he cannot install any dependencies and I have to run cli commands myself. But cost is like 1 USD per day. For now I put it on hold as I need to understand if I want to pay 10usd per day or not. Probably you can optimise it and do small tasks via cheaper models, haven’t really digged into it. My feeling is - in the next 2 month we will have openclaw-like agent from one of the companies with 20-30 USD monthly flat rate, so the problem will be solved.