Agent Spend Governance: Best Practices

How to build guardrails around autonomous AI agents so they can't burn your budget.

TL;DR: How to build guardrails around autonomous AI agents so they can't burn your budget.

What is spend governance?

Spend governance is the set of policies, limits, and alerts that prevent autonomous agents from overspending.

The runaway agent problem

A single bug in an agent loop can spend thousands in minutes. Without circuit breakers, you're exposed.

Building guardrails

Set per-agent spend caps, per-hour rate limits, and anomaly detection thresholds. Test with chaos engineering.

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