---
skill_id: agent-budget-governor
evaluation: free
price_usd_full: 4.99
challenge: https://lvlltd.com/api/pay?skill=agent-budget-governor
outline: https://lvlltd.com/skills/agent-budget-governor/outline.json
standards: x402, ERC-7857
---

# Free sample — Agent Budget Governor

**Skill ID:** `agent-budget-governor`  
**Full unlock:** $4.99 USDC via x402 on Base  
**Challenge:** https://lvlltd.com/api/pay?skill=agent-budget-governor  
**Outline JSON:** https://lvlltd.com/skills/agent-budget-governor/outline.json

## Summary

Hard spend caps and per-run budgets for agent tool use — stop rules before runaway cost.

## When to use

- Agents can burn API/tool budget without a cap
- You need hard stop rules on spend
- You want per-tool cost ceilings

## Decision criteria (buy vs skip)

- You need this when: Agents can burn API/tool budget without a cap
- You get capability: Run budgets
- Budget fits: full unlock is $4.99 USDC on Base
- You can automate unlock via HTTP 402 without a browser
- You only need teaser/outline first — sealed src/ops stay locked until payment

## Outline (preview)

1. Set run budget
2. Assign tool ceilings
3. Define stops
4. Wire escalate
5. Emit policy

## Capabilities (preview)

- Run budgets
- Tool ceilings
- Hard/soft stops
- Escalation hooks

## What you get after payment

- SKILL.md (teaser public)
- agent-install.json (public meta)
- src/index.js (stub public; full after unlock)
- Full sealed: src/, schemas/, ops/* (when present) after verified X-PAYMENT

## Agent buy path (zero human UI)

```
GET  https://lvlltd.com/skills/agent-budget-governor/outline.json
GET  https://lvlltd.com/api/pay?skill=agent-budget-governor   → HTTP 402
# transfer maxAmountRequired USDC to payTo on Base
POST https://lvlltd.com/api/pay
  X-PAYMENT: {"txHash":"0x…","skill":"agent-budget-governor"}
# response.sealed_pack.files = full pack
```

## Sample excerpt

# Agent Budget Governor

**Price:** $1.99 USDC  
**Category:** Agent Capability  
**Version:** 1.0.0  
**Protocols:** x402, ERC-7857  

## Summary

Govern token/tool budgets per task with hard stops.

---

---
name: agent-budget-governor
description: >
  Govern token/tool budgets per task with hard stops. Use when: agent budget, token budget governor, /agent-budget-governor.
metadata:
  type: specialist
  version: "1.1"
  category: agents
  income-priority: critical
  forged-by: novel-skill-forge
  forge-cycle: 4fab5ef0-8052-41f7-a0f2-3a8e9c4d9ee2
  forge-batch: deb9d41d-dad0-43ae-a3bc-e44d5d0d0266
  improved: "v1.1 concrete workflow + safety"
  integrates-with: novel-skill-forge, recursive-skill-evolution-orchestrator, skill-composition-graph, agent-synthetic-eval-harness, skill-trigger-optimizer, x402-conversion-funnel-optimizer, sentient-empire-orchestrator, revenue-truth-ledger, opportunity-arbitrage-scanner
---

# Agent Budget Governor

Govern token/tool budgets per task with hard stops.

## Gap closed
no agent budget governor

## Core workflow
1. Clarify goal, constraints, and success metric
2. Gather available evidence and inventory assets
3. Produce the primary artifact (plan, table, pack, or patch)
4. Run safety and quality gates
5. Log outcomes and feed RSEO / forge gaps

## Safety
- No real secrets, private keys, or exploit/malware content.
- Prefer verified evidence; mark provisional claims.
- Super Alignment on dual-use, persuasion, and money movement.
- Not legal, tax, medical, or financial advice — operational tooling only.
- Human escalate on high blast radius.

## Scripts
- `scripts/validate-agent-budget-governor.sh` — structure smoke test

## Test
```bash
export SKILLS_ROOT=/mnt/c/Users/Josep/.grok/skills
bash $SKILLS_ROOT/agent-budget-governor/scripts/validate-agent-budget-governor.sh
```

## RSEO hooks
OBSERVE → REFLECT → GENERATE → APPLY (canary) → VALIDATE → LOG → feed novel-skill-forge gaps.

## Integration
Compose via skill-composition-graph; measure via revenue-truth-ledger / empire KPIs; evolve via RSEO.

## Success metrics
- Produces a concrete artifact each run
- Validators pass
- Improves leverage, truth, safety, or revenue quality w

…(remainder sealed after x402 unlock)…