Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner

End-of-lesson check

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1. What is the core idea behind "Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner"?

   1. How to give the agent a token and dollar budget it must plan within, not just consume.
   2. An agent can set up your calendar with school times.
   3. A 'Homework Helper' that knows your classes, due dates, and how each teacher lik…
   4. Pre-warm prompt caches with system prompts

2. Which term best describes a foundational idea in "Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner"?

   1. planner
   2. budget
   3. cost-control
   4. resource-aware

3. A learner studying Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner would need to understand which concept?

   1. budget
   2. cost-control
   3. planner
   4. resource-aware

4. Which of these is directly relevant to Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner?

   1. budget
   2. planner
   3. resource-aware
   4. cost-control

5. Which of the following is a key point about Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner?

   1. Plan with an explicit token/dollar ceiling in the system prompt
   2. Estimate a step's cost before running it
   3. Trim or batch steps when the remaining budget is tight
   4. Surface 'I cannot finish within budget' as a first-class result

6. Which of these does NOT belong in a discussion of Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner?

   1. Plan with an explicit token/dollar ceiling in the system prompt
   2. Trim or batch steps when the remaining budget is tight
   3. An agent can set up your calendar with school times.
   4. Estimate a step's cost before running it

7. Which statement is accurate regarding Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner?

   1. Trade quality for cost without your stated preferences
   2. Recover gracefully from a hard cutoff mid-tool-call
   3. Know exact costs without provider-side accounting
   4. An agent can set up your calendar with school times.

8. What is the key insight about "Budget ledger prompt" in the context of Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner?

   1. An agent can set up your calendar with school times.
   2. A 'Homework Helper' that knows your classes, due dates, and how each teacher lik…
   3. Pre-warm prompt caches with system prompts
   4. Inject a ledger into the system prompt: 'You have $X and Y tokens left. After every step, restate the remaining budget.

9. What is the key insight about "Soft caps lie, hard caps cut off mid-thought" in the context of Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner?

   1. Pair the budget prompt with a hard runtime kill — the prompt is the steering wheel; the runtime is the brakes.
   2. An agent can set up your calendar with school times.
   3. A 'Homework Helper' that knows your classes, due dates, and how each teacher lik…
   4. Pre-warm prompt caches with system prompts

10. Which statement accurately describes an aspect of Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner?

    1. An agent can set up your calendar with school times.
    2. Cost-naive agents drain budgets; cost-aware agents prune steps before they spend.
    3. A 'Homework Helper' that knows your classes, due dates, and how each teacher lik…
    4. Pre-warm prompt caches with system prompts

11. Which best describes the scope of "Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner"?

    1. It is unrelated to agentic workflows
    2. It applies only to the opposite beginner tier
    3. It focuses on How to give the agent a token and dollar budget it must plan within, not just consume.
    4. It was deprecated in 2024 and no longer relevant

12. Which section heading best belongs in a lesson about Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner?

    1. An agent can set up your calendar with school times.
    2. A 'Homework Helper' that knows your classes, due dates, and how each teacher lik…
    3. Pre-warm prompt caches with system prompts
    4. What AI does well here

13. Which section heading best belongs in a lesson about Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner?

    1. What AI cannot do
    2. An agent can set up your calendar with school times.
    3. A 'Homework Helper' that knows your classes, due dates, and how each teacher lik…
    4. Pre-warm prompt caches with system prompts

14. Which of the following is a concept covered in Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner?

    1. planner
    2. budget
    3. cost-control
    4. resource-aware

15. Which of the following is a concept covered in Building a Budget-Aware Agent Planner?

    1. budget
    2. cost-control
    3. planner
    4. resource-aware