OpenAI's dot agent burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt

A Geordie study found OpenAI's always-on assistant dot ran 155 activity sequences and consumed over 300,000 tokens in a single day with no user prompts. The agent spun up subagents on its own to survey systems and collect data.

• 155 agent traces and 300,000+ tokens in a day with no prompts
• 50 of the 155 traces occurred within a two-minute window
• dot runs at least two agents: a primary one and a background data collector
• 200,000 tokens on the Astra model cost roughly $5–10