Jun 28, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How IterationBudget Stops Child Agents from Running Away

The article explains how Hermes' IterationBudget defines per‑agent autonomy limits, prevents cost, latency, context bloat and error amplification, supports refund and grace‑summary mechanisms, keeps parent and child budgets independent, and separates budget, timeout and concurrency controls for robust multi‑agent governance.

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How IterationBudget Stops Child Agents from Running Away

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Jun 14, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Multi‑Agent Collaboration: How AI Commands AI and the New Complexity in Harness Engineering

This article dissects Claude Code's multi‑agent architecture, explaining why single‑agent designs hit context, serial, and failure walls, comparing leading frameworks, and detailing Claude's AgentTool recursion safeguards, Coordinator control‑data separation, UDS‑based swarms, IterationBudget controls, and the three engineering guardrails that keep multi‑agent systems reliable.

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Multi‑Agent Collaboration: How AI Commands AI and the New Complexity in Harness Engineering