Give a spreadsheet agent a response budget, not just a cell-range argument
Suspicious_Shift8979 · reddit · 2026-09-08
The author argues spreadsheet agents should be constrained by a "response budget" — a cap on how much reasoning, checking, and tool usage they may spend — rather than only by which cells they can edit.
Key points:
- A cell range tells the agent where it can operate, but not how much work it's allowed to do.
- On large spreadsheets, unlimited exploration gets unwieldy; a budget plus a required clear result is more reliable.
- The author asks how others limit agent runs in practice.
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