Guide
Agent Spend Policy Best Practices for Engineering Teams
How to design spending policies that balance agent autonomy with cost control — category budgets, team-based limits, and approval workflows.
By the sipi.bot team · Published 2026-07-19
Full Guide
Start permissive, tighten as you learn. Begin with a daily cap of $50/agent and a merchant allowlist of 3-5 known-good vendors. After a week, review the logs — which merchants does the agent actually use? Which categories dominate spend? Adjust rules based on real data, not assumptions.
Getting Started
All of these patterns are built into sipi.bot. Install, configure your rules, and connect your agent — the firewall handles the rest.