Set the boundaries once. Your agents run free inside them — and anything sensitive (spend, deploy, delete, send) pauses for your one-click OK. Enforced outside the agent, where a bug or an injection can't get past it.
The whole point of an agent is to hand it the work and walk away. But the moment it acts on its own, it can spend money, deploy code, delete data, send messages — and you have no real grip on what it actually does.
So you reach for the obvious fix: put the rules in the prompt. "Don't spend over $50. Don't touch prod." It feels like control. It isn't.
A model honors an instruction right up until it's task-motivated not to. A prompt injection from a page it reads can override your rules in a single line. A loop bug ignores them entirely. The instruction was never a wall — it was a wish.
And when you run a fleet of agents, accountability collapses: which agent did what, when, and why? "I told it to be careful" is not an answer you can prove — to a customer, an auditor, or yourself.
What's missing is a boundary that lives outside the agent — one a bug, an attack, or the agent itself can never get past. A frame you set once, a human gate on what's sensitive, and a ledger that never forgets. That is Almega.
Exhibit A — A live agent ledger
Drop in the Almega MCP server or SDK. One line of code, any framework.
Which actions run free, which need you, which never. "Read freely; ask before deploy."
Anything sensitive pauses for your one-click sign-off.
Every action — allowed, held, blocked — recorded per agent. Forever.
Almega is MCP-native and open source. Drop it into any agent, on any rail — no payments expertise, and no vendor lock-in.
→ Open source on GitHub: almega-ai/almega-mcp
# set the frame once — the agent can't change it set_frame("ops-bot", allow=["read", "search"], require_approval=["deploy", "file.delete", "payment"], block=["shell.exec"], ) # the agent asks before anything sensitive request("ops-bot", "deploy", "deploy #418 to prod") # → held for your one-click approval · logged
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