Managing LLM token budgets across agents: Reddit seeks open source tooling
No-Wasabi-3147 · reddit · 2026-10-31
A Reddit user asks for open source tools to enforce budget limits and track token usage across agents calling OpenAI and Anthropic models, after agents repeatedly burned tokens on pointless runs. They want alerts or forced human approval when spending nears a limit, without monitoring every run—highlighting a real engineering pain point in agent cost governance.
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