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Tools·Aug 12, 2026

Maryan K. builds AgentShield after AI agent drains $2,800 in 60 seconds

Tool · Dev.to · stat: $2.8K Developer Maryan K. launches AgentShield, a transaction-level firewall designed to prevent runaway AI agent spending. The tool evaluates and blocks API calls before…

Tool · Dev.to · stat: $2.8K

Developer Maryan K. launches AgentShield, a transaction-level firewall designed to prevent runaway AI agent spending. The tool evaluates and blocks API calls before execution based on a seven-rule framework, built after the developer's autonomous agent executed 21 premium LLM calls costing $2,800 in 60 seconds.

Agent autonomy requires real-time transaction-level financial guardrails Founders deploying autonomous agents must implement pre-execution transaction blocks to prevent catastrophic API billing spikes.

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