// Hacker Noon · 2 June 2026

Rate Limits, Retries, Timeouts, and Token Budgets: The Unglamorous Plumbing of Production AI Agents

Production AI agents usually fail because the runtime around the model is too naive. This article explains how to design agent systems with queues, idempotency, classified retries, deadlines, token budgets, circuit breakers, and suppress on failure behavior.

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