Topic

Guardrails & Control

Detecting runaway agents and retry storms, enforcing budgets at the edge, and the operational guardrails that stop AI cost overruns before they hit your invoice.

• Observability tells you what happened. Control decides what happens next. — LLM observability tools are great at explaining last night's bill. None of them can stop tonight's. That gap is the whole category.
• Telling a busy agent from a broken one — A healthy agent working hard and an agent stuck in a loop both make lots of calls. Kill the wrong one and you break your product. Here's how to tell them apart from the traffic alone.
• Retry storms — how one outage triples your AI bill — When a provider degrades, your carefully-built retry logic doesn't protect you. It amplifies the cost. The outage doesn't lower your bill — it multiplies it.
• How much can a runaway agent burn in an hour? — A single misbehaving agent loop doesn't fail loudly — it succeeds, thousands of times, at full price. We ran the numbers.