RiskKernel, kill -9 an AI agent and resume it without paying twice
RiskKernel is an open-source, self-hosted reliability runtime for AI agents: deterministic cost, loop, and time budgets with a kill switch, crash-resumable runs, and human-approval gates. Your keys, your infra, no telemetry. Point it at the agents you already run with one environment variable.
RiskKernel, kill -9 an AI agent and resume it without paying twice launched on June 10, 2026 with 5 votes, #2,466 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
RiskKernel puts deterministic cost, loop, and time budgets around your agents, with a real kill switch, crash-resumable runs, and human-approval gates. Self-hosted, your keys, no telemetry. Point it at the agents you already run with one environment variable. One Go binary. Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, and your existing stack. Frameworks orchestrate agents. They do not put hard limits around them. So the same failures keep shipping to production, and they cost real money the moment an agent runs unattended. Budgets, kill switches, and approvals belong in statically-typed code that runs the same way every time, not in a prompt. RiskKernel is that layer. Set a dollar and token budget per…from riskkernel.com
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