Hard caps on autonomous agent API spend
Autonomous agents in long research loops can exhaust an API budget before anyone notices. Provider dashboards and account-level alerts help after the fact, but they often fire too late for a single runaway session. A practical DIY baseline is a thin client wrapper that: tracks cumulative token or dollar cost per session refuses the next call once a hard session ceiling is hit logs the stop reason so the operator can inspect what burned the budget Provider key quotas and org spend limits still ma
