Lesson 1337 of 1570
Building an Agent That Watches Its Own Token Bill
Add a budget so the agent stops before it spends $50.
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What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The big idea
- 2budget
- 3token tracking
- 4limit
Concept cluster
Terms to connect while reading
Section 1
The big idea
cost is a feature; teach your agent to track it
Some examples
- Logging tokens after each step
- Stopping at a hard limit
- Asking permission to keep going
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Open your favorite AI tool and try one of the examples above. Pick the one that matches what you are actually working on this week. Spend 10 minutes, no more. Notice what worked and what did not — that's the real lesson.
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