AutoGen agents collaborate. Civic makes sure they don't share everything.
AutoGen makes multi-agent conversations easy. Civic makes sure each agent's tool access stays separate.
The assistant agent called the code executor 400 times debugging one function.
Just imagine, one day…
You build an AutoGen group chat with three agents: a planner, an assistant, and a code executor. The assistant generates code, the executor runs it, and the planner coordinates. The system works well in testing.
The assistant generates a function with a subtle bug. The executor runs it, fails, and sends the error back. The assistant tweaks the code and sends it again. This loop runs 400 times in 12 minutes. Each iteration calls the LLM and the code executor. $890 in compute and inference costs. The code still doesn't work.
Multi-agent conversations without rate limits are just expensive retry loops.
Without rate limits, multi-agent loops burn through compute budgets.
It does things you did not intend
You asked it to write and test a parser. The assistant and executor looped 400 times on the same bug, each iteration costing compute and LLM credits.
You cannot prove what happened
400 iterations of code generation and execution. No log showing when the loop started, what changed each time, or why it didn't stop.
You cannot stop it fast enough
12 minutes of unattended execution. No circuit breaker. No cost cap. The agents kept collaborating on a solution that wasn't converging.
It gets confused and you never know
Each iteration changed the code slightly. The executor saw a different error each time, convincing the assistant it was making progress.
Your AutoGen agents call Civic. Civic enforces per-agent rate limits.
Connect AutoGen through Civic in three steps
Create profiles: assistant, executor, planner.
Executor: max 20 runs/hr, $10/day cap.
Assistant: max 50 LLM calls/hr.
Done. 3 profiles configured:
✓ assistant — 50 LLM calls/hr
✓ executor — 20 runs/hr, $10/day
✓ planner — coordination only
The same scenario. Different outcomes.
Without Civic, the agents loop until costs pile up. With Civic, the executor hits its limit after 20 runs.
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