Assistant API - way too much "input" tokens used

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I have written before how it works, in detail, after discovery beyond what they publish, and also made synopsis. Like in November:

Assistants API pricing details per message

Yes, you are going to be charged unseen and unknown amounts. OpenAI went out of their way to return no token usage and no report of the internal language used calling functions, and then combined that with a new usage page that removes the prior by-the-minute token usage. You write an “instruction” to guide the AI. Is that wrapped in hundreds of tokens telling the AI what it can and cannot do with a “user” instruction provided there, like custom instructions in ChatGPT? You upload a file. Does…

OpenAI’s line about this is “you delegate control”…