Out of budget
When a budget runs out, Agent refuses new spend. Work pauses with an escalation. You can raise the budget or stop the work, and you lose no progress.
What happensLink to What happens
- A work item pauses with the escalation "Budget exhausted on" and its key. Choose Raise the budget to resume from the last checkpoint, or Stop the work. You lose no progress.
- A chat gets no reply.
- A paid tool fails with a budget message.
- Background learning tries again an hour later.
Which budgetLink to Which budget
Budgets & Spend shows the meters. Limit reached: new spend is refused marks the budget that stopped the work: the organization, a worker, an item or a model account.
What to doLink to What to do
- Raise the organization's daily budget in the Defaults card on Settings.
- Raise a worker's budget on its Governance settings.
- Or wait: daily budgets start again each UTC day.
Checked against the product on 2026-10-05.
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