AgentRollback Budget Breaker

Put a brake and a budget on coding-agent token burn

Problem

Heavy users who live inside Claude and Codex burn quota fast and face sudden bans, causing withdrawal-level productivity loss. When long tasks or shared keys run wild, there is no simple way to budget and circuit-break token spend, so a night of runaway agents can cost a fortune.

Solution

A local proxy sitting between editor and model APIs that sets per-project daily/weekly token budgets, alerts near the limit, and automatically blocks or downgrades to a cheaper model when exceeded. It also logs detailed consumption so you can see which tasks burn the most.

Users

Indie devs and freelancers paying for Claude / Codex out of pocket; small team leads issuing shared API keys who fear runaway spend.

MVP

Local proxy for common model APIs; per-project daily/weekly budgets; threshold alerts and over-limit cutoff; usage detail and export; downgrade to a designated cheap model.

Revenue

Free personal tier plus a team subscription (multi-user budgets, approvals, billing export) at $9–19/month; possible API resale revenue share.

Why now

Coding agents are now daily drivers, yet quota anxiety and ban risk are widespread complaints. Vendors will not build cross-provider budget control, leaving a clear gap for indie builders.