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.
How to design and operate fallback routing for coding agent model calls so that a single provider outage or quota exhaustion does not stall your agent pipeline. Covers priority lists, retry logic, error-path detection, and smoke-test workflow.
A source-backed operating guide for routing coding agent writer, reviewer, critic, and fallback calls through a model gateway without confusing Responses, Chat Completions, Claude messages, secrets, or publish gates.