Before your coding agent opens a scheduled publishing window, you need cost evidence from CometAPI to avoid runaway spend. This guide covers how to read the CometAPI pricing and models documentation, run a minimal smoke test against the gateway endpoint, and record the fields that matter for cost accountability.
When a coding agent retries model gateway calls without guardrails, each attempt carries a token cost that compounds quickly. This guide explains the categories of retry risk, the guardrail controls available at the gateway layer, and a smoke-test workflow for verifying that your setup caps runaway spend before it reaches production.
Practical cost-control patterns for teams running coding agents through a model gateway, covering spend guards, per-agent token budgets, CI-integrated spend checks, and verification steps to confirm your gateway enforces the limits you configure.