FinOps for AI Agents: Who Spent All the Tokens? — Tisha Chawla & Susheem Koul, Microsoft
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AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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Throttling controls cost by killing runs; steering cut spend ~78% while lifting completion from 67% to 96%. Preview mode lets you evaluate policies against a production AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → before enforcing them.
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