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Real-time spend guardrails and audit logs for OpenAI Codex coding agents

Developers running autonomous Codex coding tasks can trigger runaway subagent trees and massive token spend with no real-time visibility or hard spend limits. A product could wrap or monitor coding-agent sessions to enforce budgets, alert on abnormal child-task fan-out, and preserve reconstructable audit logs.

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The space is not crowded by focused competitors—light open-source repo activity amid a huge generic npm surface suggests most solutions are still DIY or bundled into broader tooling—but the hot discussion volume means the pain is real and current. It is worth entering only with a clear differentiation around real-time enforcement plus server-side audit reconstruction for agent runs; otherwise you

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