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Agent loops should be managed with hard state machine budget clamps: define in code a hard upper limit of maximum execution steps K≤5, a cumulative session token cap ≤25000, and a wall-clock timeout ≤45 seconds, and when a threshold is breached, the host terminates execution, raises an alert, and passes a fallback message to a human operator.
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10/16/2026
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UnverifiedStep-count threshold alerts cannot catch 'slow loops'—where an agent oscillates between two legitimate states for a long time, never hitting the threshold within a single session yet running indefinitely across sessions—and such cases require a wall-clock time budget signal per task.72% similarUnverifiedIn Omega Agent's domain modeling, Budget limits max turns (e.g., 100 turns), max tokens (e.g., 5 million), and max seconds (e.g., 60 seconds for a single tool call).72% similarUnverifiedIn March 2026, Claude Code Max subscribers reported that quotas ran out in as little as 19 minutes rather than the expected 5 hours; Anthropic responded that it was aware and began adjusting the 5-hour session limit during weekday peak hours. The main causes were tighter limits during peak hours and ever-expanding million-token sessions.72% similarUnverifiedRate limits are typically measured in requests per minute or per day, while token quotas accumulate based on the combined volume of input and output text.70% similar
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