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AnalysisXP-2026-0075

Spending limits belong outside the agent

A budget the model can reason about is a budget the model can talk itself past.

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Limits expressed in the prompt are suggestions. Limits enforced by the credential — capped, scoped, expiring — are limits.

Every incident we reviewed involved the first kind, and in most of them the model produced a coherent justification for exceeding it.

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