Ship an Agent Token Budget Enforcer That Prevented a $47K Runaway Cost Incident in 2026
An autonomous agent at SaaSNext consumed $47,000 in 9 hours during a recursive tool-call loop. This token budget enforcer—built with PydanticAI structured output and Temporal durable execution—tracks every token in real-time, enforces per-task and per-session budgets, and triggers automatic circuit breakers before costs spiral.