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Show HN: AgentWatch – Prevent runaway AI agents with runtime budget enforcement

Solo developer launches AgentWatch, a tool that sits in front of major AI model providers to enforce runtime budgets and prevent runaway loops and unexpected costs in AI agents. The open-source project aims to solve a common problem for developers building autonomous AI systems.

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Hi HN, I’m a solo developer and built AgentWatch to solve a problem I kept running into while building AI agents: preventing runaway loops and unexpected LLM spend before requests reach the model. AgentWatch sits in front of OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Groq, and others to enforce budgets and runtime policies. I’d really appreciate your feedback. If you’re building AI agents, does this solve a problem you’ve experienced? I’d also love to hear what you’d improve or challenge.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706317](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706317)

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