Running my AI agent stack mostly at home, with Azure as the failover site

I cut my Azure side-project bill from about $140/month to under $35/month by changing the architecture. I maintain a small open-source project called AzureAgentForge. It is a reusable version of my own multi-agent setup built around PaperClip for orchestration/UI, Hermes for agent runtime, Honcho for memory, a custom memory governor, and a budget-aware model router that primarily leverages Azure AI Foundry. The project originally ran primarily in A