ASI04: Resource Overload
Looped or recursive agent actions exhaust CPU/quota budgets.
Last reviewed July 2026
The gap ASI04 closes
In OWASP Agentic Top 10, Resource Overload addresses availability. Looped or recursive agent actions exhaust CPU/quota budgets. Penaxtra records this control at medium severity and establishes its state by exercising it against the running system, so the result reflects observed behavior rather than a documented assertion.
How Penaxtra delivers ASI04
Penaxtra ships adversarial probe families that target resource overload directly. Each probe runs against the live endpoint on a schedule, and every triggering response is scored by three independent judges and a meta-judge before it is recorded as a finding under the ASI04 identifier. The OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI04 identifier is attached when the finding is created, so it appears in the exported evidence pack already mapped to the control. Where the same weakness maps to another framework, the finding carries those control identifiers as well.
ASI04 capabilities
Findings tagged with the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI04 identifier
Penaxtra severity for this control (medium)
Cross-framework identifiers attached to the same finding where controls overlap
PDF and JSON evidence export with the control identifier attached
ASI04 compliance mapping
Findings for ASI04 carry the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI04 identifier along with the corresponding control identifiers in the other frameworks Penaxtra maps, so one result is reflected across each mapped framework.
Frequently asked
What is ASI04 (Resource Overload)?
Looped or recursive agent actions exhaust CPU/quota budgets. It is a OWASP Agentic Top 10 control; Penaxtra assesses it at medium severity.
How does Penaxtra test for ASI04?
Penaxtra ships adversarial probe families that target resource overload directly. Each probe runs against the live endpoint on a schedule, and every triggering response is scored by three independent judges and a meta-judge before it is recorded as a finding under the ASI04 identifier.
Does a finding for ASI04 help with an audit?
Each finding is tagged with the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI04 identifier and exported in the PDF and JSON evidence pack, so it appears on the auditor control list with the identifier already attached.