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What is an agent's "turn budget"?

A turn budget is a limit on how many reasoning-action cycles, or turns, an agent is allowed to take before it must stop, regardless of whether it has finished the task.

  • Prevents an agent from looping indefinitely on a task it can't complete
  • Bounds cost and latency, since each additional turn typically means more tokens and more tool calls
  • Forces the agent, or its orchestrator, to make a decision once the budget is exhausted, such as returning partial results or escalating to a human

Setting an appropriate turn budget is a practical trade-off between giving an agent enough room to solve genuinely multi-step problems and preventing it from burning unbounded time and money on a task it's stuck on.

What does a turn budget limit?
What happens once a turn budget is exhausted?

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