The day a runaway agent can’t drain your budget while you sleep
Agents in production hold real credentials and real budgets. KeyForge caps spend before it reaches the provider, isolates every agent’s credentials, and seals each call into a tamper-evident audit chain — so a bad night is a blocked call, not a $4,000 invoice and an unanswerable security call.
The Panicking CTO · Co-Founder & CTO, AI-native SaaS
The $3,800 invoice you woke up to
Your first production agent ran fine in staging. Two weeks after launch it hit a prompt-injection payload in an uploaded document, entered a retry loop, and ran 11 hours unattended — a surprise invoice and a Slack alert from your CFO. Now your VP of Sales has a Fortune 500 call in three days that will ask about your AI security posture, and you have 72 hours to have an answer.
From “hope for the best” to enforceable policy
Hard spend caps that actually halt
Set a dollar ceiling on every virtual key at the gateway. A runaway loop physically cannot exceed the cap — the $4,000 mistake becomes a blocked call, not a surprise invoice.
Loop-guard for runaway agents
A progressive guard detects repeated-request storms and suspends the offending key before it can burn 11 hours of budget unattended.
Credential isolation per agent
Agents hold capped, revocable vk_ tokens instead of a shared provider key in an env var. Compromise one agent and you revoke one key — every other agent keeps running.
Prove it on the security call
Every request is HMAC hash-chained. When the Fortune 500 prospect asks what your agents did and how you govern them, you hand over a cryptographically verifiable audit chain — not a screenshot of a spend dashboard.
What changes the morning after you deploy KeyForge
The failure modes that keep production agent operators up at night — contained.
Runaway retry loop at 3am
Capped and suspended by the loop-guard before the bill grows.
Leaked or compromised agent key
Revoke one scoped vk_ key instantly; no redeploy, no blast radius.
“Prove what your agent did” on a sales call
Export a signed, hash-chained audit report your prospect can verify.
Put your agents in front of a control plane before your customers ask
The first avoided runaway invoice can pay for KeyForge — before counting the enterprise deal it unlocks. Your agents graduate to production the day you put KeyForge in front of them.