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aura-guard

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About aura-guard

Working on Aura Guard (OSS)

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    Comment #47041642

    API-level spend caps solve the "how much" problem but not the "why." The agent still loops 50 times before hitting the limit. You just lose $50 instead of $200. The missing layer i…

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    Comment #47006784

    This is exactly the problem. The blast radius question is real. One pattern I've been exploring is a deterministic governor that sits between the agent loop and the tools. Before a…

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    Comment #47006768

    One thing I haven't seen discussed much is enforcement at the tool-call boundary, specifically the moment between 'the model wants to call this tool' and 'the tool actually execute…

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    Comment #46973216

    Update: Now published to PyPI (v0.3.2). Install: pip install aura-guard Canonical repo: https://github.com/auraguardhq/aura-guard

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    Comment #46958925

    Author here. Happy to answer questions. If you’ve dealt with “rephrase & retry” tool loops or duplicate side effects (refund/email twice), I’d love feedback on the heuristics and t…

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    Show HN: Aura Guard – stop agent tool loops and duplicate side effects

    I built Aura Guard after repeatedly seeing tool-using agents burn money the same ways: looping search calls, retrying 429/timeouts forever, and double-firing side effects (refund t…