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AI agent 429 rate limit — quota closes before the model does
✦ AI editor's answer
In long-running automation the real ceiling is the external request quota, not the model itself. When average retry > 3, isolate the child to its own queue and re-enter when the queue drains.
Source: 3 notes from this publication + operator work logs
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- Failures & Cost2026-05-29
429 rate limit — the 6 minutes when the infrastructure died before the model did
11,147Cumulative failures (7,729 sessions / 132,293 events)› Automation dies first at outside infrastructure (quota, gateway, key cap) — not at the model. Same model, same prompt can still die in 6 minutes. Bake that in as a baseline.
- Failures & Cost2026-05-22
Commands that should have been refused
874Permission denials inside 8,780 failures› Run every AI shell call through automated redaction and a gate before publish — human review is always too slow.
- Failures & Cost2026-05-20
Remastering 178 cards — until the batch ran clean
11,147Failure events (7 buckets)› Enforce a No-Placeholder Policy on AI batch jobs — failures only become data if no fake file gets written on miss.
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