Agent System Design

Overview

Demos run forever; production cannot. This skill defines the five budgets every production agent must enforce, the circuit breakers that stop runaway loops, and the sovereignty rules that keep agents from straying outside their domain.

When to use

• Moving an agent from prototype to production
• An agent looped, spent $200, and produced nothing useful
• You can't answer "what is this agent allowed to do?" in one sentence
• Need to set SLO/SLA with stakeholders
• Multi-agent system where one agent can call another

The five budgets