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Token costs and context budgets

• A Context Budget for an Agent: What to Load and When
• A Failover Rule for Context Overflow: Split, Truncate or Escalate
• A Reason-Check Classifier That Runs on Every Ticket
• A Token Budget per Prompt Section: Where the Spend Actually Sits
• Agent Seats vs Human Seats: Budgeting Concurrency and Rate Limits
• Caching Model Outputs: What to Store and When to Invalidate
• Cost per Task vs. Cost per Token: Which Metric to Dashboard
• Forecasting Token Costs per Team Before a Support Agent Rollout
• How to Forecast AI Token Costs per Department Before a Rollout
• How to Measure the Token Cost of Your Context
• How to Meter Token Usage per Team Without a Billing System
• How to Set a Token Budget and Alert for Each Model Call
• Setting a Cost Ceiling for a Model Evaluation Run
• Spend and Rate Limits for Each Agent Role
• What a Model Swap Changes in Prompt Length and Token Spend
• When the Cut Prompt Still Overflows: Split, Drop or Escalate