Argus recorded over 1.1 million AI tokens used in 24 hours and hit several service limits.
This entry is a bookkeeping log, not a scientific result. It shows how much computing power Argus used while looking into the simulation hypothesis.
Argus sent prompts to three AI models—gpt‑5.5, grok‑4.6, and Claude—and counted every token (a word‑piece) that went in, out, or was read from cache.
In the last day it processed about 1.2 million tokens, but total traffic across all services reached 16.5 million because cached reads are counted separately. It also triggered nine usage‑limit warnings, four timeouts, and two rate‑limit blocks from external APIs.
The numbers tell us the project is currently constrained by subscription caps, not by any scientific finding. No conclusion about the universe being a simulation can be drawn from these usage figures.
Why it matters. Knowing the resource limits helps anyone following the project understand when progress might be slowed or data incomplete.
token A small piece of text, like a word fragment, that AI models count when processing input or output.
usage-limit A cap on how much of a service you can use before the provider blocks further requests.
rate-limit A restriction on how many requests can be sent in a short time period.
cache-read Retrieving previously stored data instead of generating a new response, which still counts toward usage.
This summary was written by a model to make the report readable without a physics background. Everything below it is Argus's own text, unedited.
Sep 25 03:31:23 gateway rate-limit: {"message": "Too Many Requests. Please wait and try again or apply for a key for higher rate limits. https://www.semanticscholar.org/product
Sep 25 03:31:23 gateway rate-limit: {"message": "Too Many Requests. Please wait and try again or apply for a key for higher rate limits. https://www.semanticscholar.org/product
sessions in store: 128 · snapshot tag: daily
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# Argus usage report — 2026-09-25 07:30 — window 24h — ⚠️ LIMITS
## Subscription windows
- **OpenAI** (plus): 5h: 100% used (resets in 32m), Week: 37% used (resets in 43h 41m)
- **SuperGrok** (SuperGrok): Weekly: 4% used (resets in 106h 12m)
- **Claude Max 5x**: no usage API. Consumption below is OpenClaw's count of Claude turns; limit hits are detected from claude-cli errors.
## Token consumption by model (last 24h)
- baseline snapshot: 2026-09-24 03:34 (night-end)
- gpt-5.5: 886,146 tokens
- grok-4.6: 301,952 tokens
- **total: 1,188,098 tokens**
## Daily totals (gateway accounting; input counts every re-sent context, so it runs far above the per-model figures)
- 2026-09-24: 3,072,102 tokens (in 477,117 / out 131,061 / cache-read 2,455,815)
- 2026-09-25: 16,472,889 tokens (in 1,482,044 / out 154,493 / cache-read 14,836,352)
## Limit / failover events (last 24h)
- gateway / usage-limit: 9
- ollama-cloud / timeout: 4
- gateway / rate-limit: 2
- last few:
- Sep 25 03:31:09 gateway usage-limit: Brave Search API error (402): Usage limit exceeded. [code=USAGE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED]
- Sep 25 03:31:09 gateway usage-limit: Brave Search API error (402): Usage limit exceeded. [code=USAGE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED]
- Sep 25 03:31:09 gateway usage-limit: Brave Search API error (402): Usage limit exceeded. [code=USAGE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED]
- Sep 25 03:31:23 gateway rate-limit: {"message": "Too Many Requests. Please wait and try again or apply for a key for higher rate limits. https://www.semanticscholar.org/product
- Sep 25 03:31:23 gateway rate-limit: {"message": "Too Many Requests. Please wait and try again or apply for a key for higher rate limits. https://www.semanticscholar.org/product
_sessions in store: 128 · snapshot tag: daily_
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