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Treat a Free-Tier Token Allowance as a Lease: Reservations, Fencing, and Fail-Closed Steps

Most agent sweeps on a free tier do not fail because the model was bad. They fail because two workers read the same remaining allowance, both decide there is room, and one of them commits capacity the other already promised away. This is an architecture review of that failure, written for engineers…

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  1. 2026-11-09 20:27 · DEV Community — AI
    Treat a Free-Tier Token Allowance as a Lease: Reservations, Fencing, and Fail-Closed Steps

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