Your Agent Needs a Dollar Limit, Not a Token Budget

If you let an autonomous coding agent run in an unbounded loop, I have bad news for you, or rather, your wallet. It happens easily. An agent gets handed a task, runs into an unhandled error or a failing test, and gets stuck in a retry loop. It re-reads the same files, attempts the same broken patch, and streams tokens the whole time while nobody is watching. We solved this problem in cloud…