Agent ops tips: retire bots with clean handoff docs and cap retries at 1-3 loops
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-10-22
Two developers share hard-won lessons from running long-lived coding agents: regularly retire agents and restart with a clean handoff doc and prompt rather than letting context churn, and cap verification loops at 1-3 failures before stopping and reporting back to a human. One also pulled pre-merge usage graphs showing 1.2 billion tokens in a week, complaining usage feels worse on the new plan.
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