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Retries Are a Token Multiplier: A Ledger-First Test Plan for Agent Budgets

An agent loop that succeeds on the first attempt looks cheap, and that is exactly why budget surprises happen. The expensive path is the one where the transport times out, the client retries, and the entire context is resent to a model that already answered. Those retried tokens do not produce a be…

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  1. 2026-11-09 21:33 · DEV Community — AI
    Retries Are a Token Multiplier: A Ledger-First Test Plan for Agent Budgets

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