How Do You Wrangle Hundreds of Long-Running Agent Threads?
curious_vii · x · 2026-08-12
Developer @curiousvii raises a design challenge in large-scale AI agent engineering: how to effectively manage hundreds or thousands of long-running agent threads.
He argues that current general payment primitives (like pooled credit balances) lack fine-grained control. A potential solution involves assigning an independent budget to each thread, requiring requests for additional resources when exhausted, thereby enabling precise thread-level and goal-level management.
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