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Budget-Aware Planning for Token-Constrained Agents
Teach agents to plan within a token and dollar budget per task.
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Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2token budget
- 3cost-aware planning
- 4step pruning
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Section 1
The premise
Agents that don't know their budget burn it; explicit budgets force smarter planning.
What AI does well here
- Pass a remaining-budget number into each planning step.
- Prune low-value steps when budget is tight.
- Stop early and report partial results when budget exhausts.
What AI cannot do
- Predict tool-call cost without history.
- Negotiate budget extensions on its own.
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