{"slug": "token-budget-circuit-breaker-cut-multi-agent-retry-waste-98", "title": "Token budget circuit breaker – cut multi-agent retry waste ~98%", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "Free sample: session survival / thrash defense for agent runtimes.\n\n**Not** a privacy or upload-control product. MIT-friendly.\n\nRetries cost tokens, not just time:\n\n```\ncost(n) = baseTokens × mult^n\n```\n\n**Harness:** 100 agents · 8 steps · 75% tool fail · tiktoken cl100k_base · mult=1.45\n\n| Tokens | |\n|---|---|\n| Naive fleet backoff | 49.44M |\n| Paradox (breaker + zero-RTT prune + fleet wallet) | 817.5k |\nSaved |\n98.3% |\n\n```\npip install tiktoken\npython proof_of_burn_standalone.py\n```\n\nExpected:\n\n```\nSAVED 48.62M (98.3%)\nPROOF_OF_BURN_PASS\n```\n\nLocal verification (Windows, 2026-08-03): same numbers with HONEST_BENCHMARK_CLASS: 90%+.\n\n- 98.3% is a harness result under the stated parameters — re-run yourself.\n- Live production savings must be measured on your estate separately.\n\nMIT — run the script. Keep the invariant.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/token-budget-circuit-breaker-cut-multi-agent-retry-waste-98", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/mrblakessinger-rgb/paradox-engine-eots", "published_at": "2026-08-03 20:34:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-03 20:52:58.942537+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Paradox", "OpenAI tiktoken"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/token-budget-circuit-breaker-cut-multi-agent-retry-waste-98", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/token-budget-circuit-breaker-cut-multi-agent-retry-waste-98.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/token-budget-circuit-breaker-cut-multi-agent-retry-waste-98.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/token-budget-circuit-breaker-cut-multi-agent-retry-waste-98.jsonld"}}