Cost Control Best Practices

1. Always Set Budgets

Never run agents without budgets in production.

2. Start Conservative

cost:
  budgets:
    researcher:
      daily: 500

3. Use Global Budgets

cost:
  budgets:
    global:
      daily: 10000

4. Monitor Daily

naos cost status
naos cost history --days 7

5. Use the Broker

The broker routes tasks to skills before LLMs, saving 40-60% on costs.

6. Set Alerts

cost:
  alerts:
    - threshold: 80