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Handling budget overruns and orphaned agents

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Handling budget overruns and orphaned agents

  • A Grace Allowance When the Quota Service Is Down
  • Fan-Out Without Fan-In: Handling Orphaned Sub-Agents
  • Killing a Run Mid-Stream Without Corrupting State
  • Postmortems for Budget Overruns: Writing the Run Record
  • Reading the Override Log for Patterns: Queries and Thresholds
  • Refunding Reserved Capacity When an Agent Task Fails
  • Reporting Agent Overages Up: Metrics a Manager Can Act On
  • Reserving Budget for Orphaned Sub-Agents
  • When an Agent's Estimate Is Wrong: Logging the Gap
  • When the Estimate Is Wrong: Cutting an Agent Run Off Mid-Task
Agent cost and budgeting

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