OpenClaw - An AI agent caused a massive API token

An AI agent caused a massive API token bill due to issues like infinite retry loops, highlighting the need for better safeguards and monitoring when granting AI agents access to development environments.

Updated: 3/16/2026
We gave an AI agent full access to a dev environment for one week and ended up with a 1.4 billion token API bill. After going through the call logs, 90% of those tokens weren't doing any real work. Three things caused most of the damage: • Infinite retry loops (no circuit https://t.co/kpDAWt9NbR Source: https://x.com/milvusio/status/2031754521462882464

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