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# Depth And Budgets

> Runtime guards for MAL plans and subagent execution.

Harness budgets are runtime budgets. They do not contain prices, USDC amounts, or payment fields.

## Defaults

| Budget           | Default  |
| ---------------- | -------- |
| `maxToolBatches` | `6`      |
| `maxTokens`      | `80000`  |
| `maxWallMs`      | `300000` |
| `maxDepth`       | `3`      |

Managed subagents in `framework.ts` also enforce a default max depth of `3`.

## Stop Reasons

Subagent stop reasons:

| Reason                | Meaning                             |
| --------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| `completed`           | Clean final answer.                 |
| `budget_tokens`       | Token budget exceeded.              |
| `budget_tool_batches` | Tool batch budget exceeded.         |
| `budget_wall`         | Wall-clock budget exceeded.         |
| `depth_exceeded`      | Recursion depth exceeded.           |
| `aborted`             | Parent or caller aborted execution. |
| `error`               | Runtime or tool failure.            |

MAL run stop reasons:

| Reason      | Meaning                            |
| ----------- | ---------------------------------- |
| `completed` | Plan ran through all steps.        |
| `stop_op`   | Plan ended through `op: stop`.     |
| `error`     | A step failed or validation threw. |
| `aborted`   | Execution was aborted.             |

## Example

```yaml theme={null}
budget:
  maxToolBatches: 4
  maxTokens: 50000
  maxWallMs: 180000
  maxDepth: 3
steps:
  - op: delegate
    saveAs: result
    agentWallet: "0x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111"
    prompt: "Run the bounded analysis."
```

## Related

* [Harness architecture](/manowar/harness/architecture)
* [Harness A2A](/manowar/harness/a2a)