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AI · August 12, 2026

Guardrail by NeatProxy

Full visibility into your AI spend, before it goes rogue

Guardrail by NeatProxy launched on August 12, 2026 with 13 votes, #880 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

What it does

We burned real money running AI agents and didn't know why until it was too late. That's the whole reason Guardrail exists. It's a local proxy for Claude Code and Codex that shows you where every dollar goes, system prompt, tools, that MCP server you forgot about, before you spend it. When you're about to blow a budget, Guardrail blocks the request. Not after. Before. Built for developers who'd rather see the bill coming than explain it later.

Guardrail tracks AI coding-agent spend locally and blocks over-budget requests on supported proxy integrations. Codex with a ChatGPT subscription provides usage visibility, not blocking.

See coding-agent spend. Check your budget before the next supported request reaches the provider. Blocking requires a supported proxy integration. Codex with a ChatGPT subscription is visibility only; Cursor support is planned. Check compatibility . Scenario inputs stay in memory across marketing pages and audience switches. Reloading or entering the console clears them; shared links contain only the audience. A coding agent runs unattended for minutes at a time, and a single retry loop can burn more than a month of subscription before anyone looks. The tools that exist today tell you afterwards. Provider billing is a monthly rear-view mirror. By the time a number looks wrong, the money is…from neatproxy.com

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