Reddit thread asks how to catch runaway agents before they blow the budget
Designer_Power3691 · reddit · 2026-07-23
A Reddit thread asks how teams can catch a runaway agent before it racks up a huge bill. The poster describes an agent that got stuck in a retry loop, showed only a vague “high activity” signal in the dashboard, and quietly burned far more calls than expected.
The discussion frames the gap in current observability: tools tend to answer “is it running?” rather than “is it behaving normally?” The suggested defenses include budget caps, anomaly detection, and more proactive monitoring of agent behavior and spend.
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