Show HN: RiskKernel – a kill switch and budgets for runaway AI agents

Category: infrastructure

Tags: ai-agents, guardrails, self-hosted

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

RiskKernel is a self-hosted agent reliability runtime that provides deterministic cost, loop, and time budgets for AI agents, with crash-resumable checkpoints and human-approval gates. It addresses a critical gap in production agent safety by adding guardrails that prevent runaway costs and infinite loops, operating as a proxy, SDK, or OpenTelemetry endpoint with minimal integration friction.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, ai-engineers

Repository: https://github.com/prashar32/riskkernel · Go · Apache-2.0 · 14 stars

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