Cap your coding agent's retries at 5: how SuperPlane stops runaway token bills
Arindam_1729 · x · 2026-10-31
The author shares a key practice for running coding agents at scale: most setups let agents retry failed CI loops forever, burning tokens until someone notices an hour and a bill later. SuperPlane's verify stage returns each failure as a short focused excerpt to the agent, caps the loop at 5 attempts, then stops and pings a human. Its performance view also splits tokens from compute and shows median cost per closed task—making retry caps the difference between cheap and expensive agents.
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