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World Congress 2026 North America • Sep 25, 2026 • Session details

Give the Agent a Budget, Not a Token

Sachin Malhotra

An empty bash variable can cause a helpful AI to wipe out staging workloads. Protect your infrastructure by giving agents regenerating action budgets instead of static tokens.

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