Comment by RITESH1985

Token counting matters a lot when agents are running long action chains. The hidden cost is retry loops — when an agent action times out and the agent retries, it re-sends the full context including all previous tool call results. A single failed payment call can cost 3x the tokens of a successful one. Observability at the token level is one thing, but you also need observability at the action level — did this side effect actually execute or did it fail silently?