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Deterministic cost / loop / time budgets · full observability · crash-resumable runs · human-approval gates · a memory you own. Self-hosted. Your keys. No telemetry. Point it at your existing agents - one env var.

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RiskKernel – a kill switch and budgets for runaway AI agents

by prashar32·Jun 8, 2026·1 point·0 comments

AI Analysis

●●SolidBig BrainShip It

Deterministic Go governor halts runaway agents at budget with HTTP 402.

Strengths
  • Crash-resumable checkpoints persist budget state across kill -9 and daemon restarts.
  • Framework-agnostic approval gates pause side-effecting tool calls for human review.
  • OpenTelemetry GenAI spans emit to your existing observability backend.
Weaknesses
  • Agent governance is emerging space with multiple competing approaches being tried.
  • Requires self-hosting and one env var integration per agent framework.
Category
Target Audience

Developers running production AI agents who need guardrails

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