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Cost Ceiling and Kill-Switch for Agent Loops
How to give an autonomous agent loop a hard cost and iteration ceiling so a bad condition cannot drive unbounded tool calls or spend before a human notices. Covers choosing the ceiling, enforcing it in the runner rather than the prompt, stopping cleanly at the bound with a partial result, and the difference between a cost ceiling and a per-run budget.
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A Ceiling Written in the Prompt Is Not a Ceiling
Cost Ceiling and Kill-Switch for Agent Loops# A Ceiling Written in the Prompt Is Not a Ceiling Telling a model to be economical is advice, not a limit. A real ceiling lives in the code that runs the loop, where it can actually halt execution when the bound is reached. The distinction matters because the runaway case is exactly the one where
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