Best way to avoid "response too long" error

[DanaMartens]

I understand there are ways you provide to gracefully prune input tokens to stay within the max, but what is the best method to prevent the response from exceeding the token limit and causing a 'response too long' error? When I ask GitHub Copilot, it suggests the following (passing maxTokens) but it doesn't seem to be valid:

const chatResponse = await model.sendRequest(messages, { maxTokens: maxOutputTokens }, token);