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.

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.