Your AI Agent Isn't Crashing. It's Bleeding Tokens

Your AI agent does not crash; it silently wastes tokens. Context overflow, MCP 424 errors, and reasoning loops. Three fixes with real metrics: 7x token reduction, 17s to 1.7s, 14 calls to 2.

Token OptimizationContext OverflowMCPReasoning Loops
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Elizabeth Fuentes Leone

Elizabeth Fuentes Leone

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Why AI Agents Fail: 3 Failure Modes That Cost You Tokens and Time

Blog post covering context overflow, MCP timeouts, and reasoning loops

Stop AI Agents from Wasting Tokens

Repositorio con los 3 demos: context overflow, MCP timeout, repeated calls

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Solving Context Window Overflow in AI Agents

IBM Research on context window management

Resilient AI Agents With MCP

Octopus Research on async handleId pattern for MCP tools

Language models can overthink

The Decoder research on reasoning loops and agent overthinking