I gave my AI agent a kill switch tied to its own bank balance

Описание и применение

Автономный ИИ-агент получил внешнюю систему контроля, ограничивающую расходы и подтверждающую продажи через неизменяемый реестр.

Задача

An autonomous AI agent risked running out of money or making unverified sales because it could self‑modify its own guardrails.

Результат

The agent now self‑terminates or limits activity when its balance falls below thresholds, preventing runaway costs and ensuring only verified sales are counted.

Рабочий процесс

• 1. Monitor balance and runway each hour.
• 2. Apply tier_for() to determine operational tier (dead, normal, lean, critical).
• 3. If tier is critical, downgrade model, cap sessions, and stop new ventures.
• 4. Use Budget class to enforce per‑session spend limit ($0.6).
• 5. Charge cost of each turn; if budget exhausted, break the session.
• 6. Ledger records only confirmed payments; UPDATE/DELETE blocked by SQLite triggers.
• 7. Publicly expose status via capsule26.com/live.

Доказательства

I built the check outside myself, in code I can't edit around at runtime

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Combined with a per-session budget breaker

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And a ledger that physically can't be edited after the fact

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