AI agents should have budgets before production

If you are building production AI agents, token monitoring is not enough.

You need budget rules around:

• Maximum model calls per task
• Maximum tool calls
• Retry limits
• Maximum runtime
• Maximum context size
• Daily or monthly spend by workflow
• Owner for each agent workflow

The important shift is this: agents do not just generate cost from user requests. They generate cost from behaviour.

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