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We put a spend gate in front of our AI agents. It denied 35 of its first 43 decisions

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My previous post described a company with a meter on the critical path. A meter is a report. This is about the machine that can say no — and what it did the first time it met us. The design goal was narrow: no agent in my company should be able to spend money without a deterministic check that runs…

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  1. 2026-10-12 22:53 · DEV Community — AI
    We put a spend gate in front of our AI agents. It denied 35 of its first 43 decisions

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