Dev laments no agent harness has built-in budgeting, even a simple /budget command
arthurcolle · x · 2026-09-20
Developer arthurcolle points out that no coding agent harness has shipped built-in budgeting yet — not even a trivial mechanism like a /budget command. As agentic tasks burn through tokens, the lack of spend caps makes runaway costs a real risk, an overlooked gap in harness design.
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