[Inference Ops]
A Runaway Token Bill Is a Diagnosis Problem
When an agent burns its budget and dies at the turn cap, the instinct is to raise the cap. But roughly 99% of an attempt's tokens are context re-carried through every turn, so a defect that strikes early taxes every turn after it. One audited run spent about 40% of its turns re-deriving a defect already on file — and the fix was one line.