{"title":"Financial Guardrails: Preventing Budget Burn","region":"Global","category":"Economics","description":"Hard caps and pauses for recursive execution costs.","lastUpdated":"2026-02-24","source":"https://community.openai.com/t/function-call-loop-burned-through-my-budget/550563","steps":["Define a 'Max_Session_Budget' outside the LLM context.","Track cumulative token spend in a local state variable.","Trigger a 60-second pause if a single step fails twice.","Require Human-in-the-loop approval at 50% budget usage.","Terminate immediately on 3 consecutive 429 errors."],"url":"https://checklist.day/financial-guardrails-preventing-budget-burn"}