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YC S26 · #13 Software for Agents

AI agents will spend trillions of dollars.
They need brakes.

Give an AI agent a USDC budget and a per-call cap. Watch it discover x402-paid APIs, pay as it works, and stop cold when the limit is hit. The first agent wallet with hard spend limits.

x402 protocolUSDC on BaseAgentGuard limitsLlama 3.3 70B reasoning
Total budget$1 USDC
$0.10$5.00
Per-call cap$0.05 USDC
$0.01$0.50
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