101How do you enforce a hard per-task budget so an agent stops before it overruns?▼mediumAnthropicOpenAIAWS◆ premiumEveryone says 'cap the budget'. The signal is the enforcement mechanism: a budget object that travels with the run, checked before each call rather than after, with reserved headroom for a final answer and correct accounting across sub-agents.Open full answer →
06How do you protect an LLM API from abuse and runaway cost (rate limits, quotas, abuse detection)?▼mediumOpenAIMicrosoftAnthropic2 repliesunlockedLLM endpoints are unusually exposed: every call can spend real money and consume scarce GPU capacity, so abuse is a security and a financial problem at once. What lands is layered controls on tokens and cost, not just request count. Here is the defense.Open full answer →
