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LoopBudget brings soft warn / hard stop controls to AI coding agents

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

LoopBudget launches a tool that adds soft warn and hard stop policies to Cursor and Claude Code sessions. It monitors token spend in real-time and alerts teams before costs spiral. The hard stop currently logs a policy decision rather than force-killing the agent, with a true ceiling planned next.

Meridian48 take
Useful for teams burning through AI budgets, but the lack of a guaranteed kill switch means it's more of a visibility tool than a true cost control.
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