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An agent can spend $10k a day. Nothing is stopping it.

For finance and engineering — spending ceilings before the runaway, not after.

Some users, agents, and tools have no cap at all. You can't see who's near a limit or over it, and the first warning of a breach is usually the invoice.

The pain

No ceilings, no warning.

Budgets are set at the top and discovered at the bottom — once an agent has already burned through them.

Uncapped by default

Most agents, users, and tools run with no ceiling. A single misbehaving loop can outspend a whole team.

No near-the-edge view

You can't see who's approaching a limit, so there's no moment to intervene before the overage.

The invoice is the alert

Without run-rate and days-to-breach, the breach announces itself after the money is already gone.

How usage limits resolves it

Ceilings on every axis — observe, alert, then enforce.

1.

Cap per user, agent, and tool

Set ceilings on every axis, see your cap coverage, and get an uncapped worklist that names the entities with no limit.

2.

Watch the run-rate

Run-rate and days-to-breach turn a static budget into an early warning, so you act before the cap is hit.

3.

Audit, assist, then enforce

Start by observing, escalate to alerts, and only then hard-stop — the same ladder that keeps enforcement from breaking real work.

Stop the runaway before it starts.

Ceilings on every axis, with warning time built in.