Announcing agent-gov: Open-Source AI Agent Cost Governance

Open-source cost governance for AI agents. Daily budgets, auto-pause, tool registry — stop your agents from burning through your budget.

domenica 31 maggio 2026 New tab

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Stop waking up to surprise $500 bills from your AI agents.

The 3 AM Wake-Up Call

It was 3:47 AM on a Tuesday. My phone buzzed — a Cloudflare bill alert. Then another. Then Stripe. By the time I stumbled to my laptop, three different providers had collectively racked up $487 in just six hours.

What happened? A single AI coding agent had gotten stuck in a loop. It was re-analyzing the same bug, calling the same expensive LLM endpoint over and over, spawning sub-agents that spawned their own sub-agents. Nobody put a governor on it. Nobody thought they needed to.

Announcing agent-gov: Open-Source AI Agent Cost Governance

Announcing agent-gov: Open-Source AI Agent Cost Governance

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