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Token budget circuit breaker – cut multi-agent retry waste ~98%

A new open-source token budget circuit breaker, called Paradox, cuts multi-agent retry waste by 98.3%, reducing token consumption from 49.44 million to 817,500 in a benchmark harness with 100 agents, 8 steps, and a 75% tool failure rate. The tool, which is MIT-licensed and available for local verification, combines a circuit breaker, zero-RTT pruning, and a fleet wallet to prevent token thrashing in agent runtimes.

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Token budget circuit breaker – cut multi-agent retry waste ~98%
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Free sample: session survival / thrash defense for agent runtimes.

Not a privacy or upload-control product. MIT-friendly.

Retries cost tokens, not just time:

cost(n) = baseTokens × mult^n

Harness: 100 agents · 8 steps · 75% tool fail · tiktoken cl100k_base · mult=1.45

Tokens
Naive fleet backoff 49.44M
Paradox (breaker + zero-RTT prune + fleet wallet) 817.5k
Saved
98.3%
pip install tiktoken
python proof_of_burn_standalone.py

Expected:

SAVED 48.62M (98.3%)
PROOF_OF_BURN_PASS

Local verification (Windows, 2026-08-03): same numbers with HONEST_BENCHMARK_CLASS: 90%+.

  • 98.3% is a harness result under the stated parameters — re-run yourself.
  • Live production savings must be measured on your estate separately.

MIT — run the script. Keep the invariant.

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