Troy Hunt: HIBP team leans harder on Claude agents, $854/week in tokens and counting

Have I Been Pwned is shifting an increasing share of routine work onto Claude-powered agents wired through a custom orchestrator the team calls OpenClaw. Hunt runs a PwnedClaw bot to catalogue and process breach data, Stefan leans on GitHub Copilot inside Visual Studio, and Charlotte’s Telegram-based Pwny bot crawls site content to flag inconsistencies during UI redesigns.

Token spend over the past fortnight hit US$854 on Claude alone, a number Hunt frames as cheap relative to a human doing equivalent work. The throughline is workload partitioning: the small HIBP team is getting better at deciding what humans should own versus what an agent can be turned loose on, and they consider current usage only the opening act.