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Ask any team that's shipped a real agentic system what the hard part was. Almost none of them will say "the LLM call." The core loop that every production agent runs is nearly identical, whether it's Claude Code, Cursor, or a homegrown financial automation tool. The interesting engineering — the part that separates a working agent from a runaway cost center — lives entirely outside that loop.

One team started running an agent loop at $127 per week. Four weeks later, the bill hit $47,000. An uncontrolled loop with no token ceiling had compounded every iteration into a financial catastrophe. The model kept running. Nobody told it to stop.