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⇱ AI agents should have budgets before production - DEV Community


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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