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[suggestion] Missing README.md — every other skill in this repo includes one

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Why: The main repo README.md table links each skill to skills/<name>/README.md (see the table in the root README). All 10 existing skills ship both SKILL.md (the agent-loaded instruction file) and README.md (the human-facing install + overview page). Without a README.md, this skill can't be linked from the root table and won't be discoverable via gh skill install without knowing the exact name.

Fix: add skills/agentguard-spend/README.md following the pattern of e.g. skills/openrouter-stt/README.md — title, one-paragraph description, gh skill install command, prerequisites, and a short "What it covers" section pointing to SKILL.md.

Prompt for agents

Create skills/agentguard-spend/README.md following the pattern of other skills in this repo (e.g. skills/openrouter-stt/README.md). The file should include: (1) a # agentguard-spend title, (2) a one-paragraph description of what the skill does, (3) the gh skill install OpenRouterTeam/skills agentguard-spend install command block with links to flag docs, (4) prerequisites (Node 20+, OPENROUTER_API_KEY), (5) a short "What it covers" section listing the main topics from SKILL.md. Also add the skill to the table in the root README.md under the Skills section, with a link to skills/agentguard-spend/README.md.

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name: agentguard-spend
description: Add local-runtime spend caps, capability-gated model routing, and Ed25519-signed audit receipts to any AI agent. Wraps OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, or OpenRouter clients. Zero data plane — prompts, API keys, and signing keys never leave the customer process. Use when building any AI agent that needs spend governance, when CFO wants to assign specific models to specific tasks, when implementing AI compliance / audit trails, when capping LLM costs per user / team / agent, when integrating OpenRouter with budget controls, or when the user mentions "AI spend cap", "AI agent budget", "model routing per task", "tamper-evident audit log", or "signed receipts for AI calls".
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# AgentGuard Spend

Add local-runtime spend caps, capability gates, and Ed25519-signed audit receipts to any AI agent in 90 seconds. Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, and OpenRouter. Every policy decision runs in the customer's process. Prompts, API keys, and signing keys never leave the runtime.

## Architecture

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Customer Application │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Your code │
│ │ │
│ ▼ │
│ withSpendGuard(openaiClient, { policy, scope }) │
│ │ │
│ ├── estimate input tokens │
│ ├── evaluatePolicy() vs local spend store │
│ ├── action: allow | downgrade | shadow | block │
│ ├── sign decision with Ed25519 │
│ ├── append to hash-chained decision log │
│ └── pass through to provider (or short-circuit) │
│ │ │
│ ▼ │
│ Provider (OpenAI / Anthropic / Bedrock / OpenRouter) │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

No data leaves the customer runtime. The policy runs in-process. The signed log lives in the customer's storage.

## Prerequisites

- Node 20+ or Python 3.10+
- An OpenAI-compatible client (the OpenAI SDK works for OpenRouter via `baseURL`)
- For full demo: nothing else. Run `agentguard demo` after install.

## Install

```bash
npm install @agentguard-run/spend
# or
pip install agentguard-spend
```

## Decision Tree

| User wants to... | Action |
|---|---|
| See it work with a real signed receipt in 30 sec | Run `agentguard demo` |
| Scaffold a project with policy.yaml + quickstart | Run `agentguard init` |
| Check the installation is healthy | Run `agentguard doctor` |
| Decode an existing receipt with cap math | Run `agentguard explain latest` |
| Verify a chain of signed decisions | Run `agentguard verify --trace latest` |
| Watch decisions live in a local dashboard | Run `agentguard serve` |
| Verify someone else's receipt without installing anything | Open https://agentguard.run/verify in a browser |

## Quick Start with OpenRouter (recommended path)

OpenRouter is OpenAI-compatible. Wrap your existing OpenAI client pointed at OpenRouter's base URL.

```ts
import OpenAI from 'openai';
import {
withSpendGuard,
setCostOverride,
type SpendPolicy,
} from '@agentguard-run/spend';
import { randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
import * as ed from '@noble/ed25519';

// Register OpenRouter pricing. In v0.3.0, `agentguard models --sync-pricing`
// pulls this from openrouter.ai/api/v1/models automatically.
setCostOverride('anthropic/claude-opus-4-7', { inputCentsPerKtok: 2.0, outputCentsPerKtok: 10.0 });
setCostOverride('anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5', { inputCentsPerKtok: 0.1, outputCentsPerKtok: 0.5 });
setCostOverride('openai/gpt-5', { inputCentsPerKtok: 0.5, outputCentsPerKtok: 1.5 });
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P2 Badge Use valid OpenRouter model overrides

In the OpenRouter quick start, these overrides use Anthropic's native hyphenated IDs and inflated rates instead of OpenRouter's catalog values. OpenRouter lists the models as anthropic/claude-opus-4.7 and anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5, so the current overrides will not match the later request/downgrade model strings; the Opus and GPT-5 cents-per-K values are also several times higher than OpenRouter pricing, causing copied policies to downgrade or block far earlier than the configured dollar caps imply.

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const policy: SpendPolicy = {
id: 'code-review-v1',
name: 'Code review team',
scope: { tenantId: 'acme', teamId: 'engineering' },
caps: [
// Soft daily cap: at $50/day, downgrade to haiku
{ amountCents: 5000, window: 'per_day', action: 'downgrade',
downgradeTo: 'anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5',
reason: 'over $50/day, drop to haiku' },
// Hard daily ceiling: at $200/day, block
{ amountCents: 20000, window: 'per_day', action: 'block',
reason: 'hard daily ceiling' },
// Per-minute burst guard
{ amountCents: 500, window: 'per_minute', action: 'block',
reason: 'runaway loop detection' },
],
mode: 'enforce',
version: 1,
effectiveFrom: new Date().toISOString(),
};

const privateKey = new Uint8Array(randomBytes(32));

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[blocker] privateKey regenerated on every startup — breaks audit chain continuity

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Why: new Uint8Array(randomBytes(32)) produces a fresh keypair every time the process starts. Any receipts signed with the old key become unverifiable after a restart because the new publicKey doesn't match the signer of past decisions. The entire value proposition of AgentGuard is tamper-evident receipts — an ephemeral key quietly invalidates the chain.

Fix: generate the keypair once and persist it (e.g. write to disk with fs.writeFileSync, load from env, or use a KMS). Show users how to load a persisted key:

// Persist once:
const privateKey = new Uint8Array(randomBytes(32));
await fs.writeFile('.agentguard-key', Buffer.from(privateKey).toString('hex'));

// Load on startup:
const hex = await fs.readFile('.agentguard-key', 'utf8');
const privateKey = new Uint8Array(Buffer.from(hex, 'hex'));
const publicKey = await ed.getPublicKeyAsync(privateKey);

At minimum, warn users in a comment that this key must be persisted for audit continuity.

Prompt for agents

In skills/agentguard-spend/SKILL.md at line 102, the quickstart generates a fresh Ed25519 private key every time the code runs. This silently breaks audit trail continuity: receipts signed by a previous key can no longer be verified after any process restart. Update the quickstart example to either (1) show how to generate the key once and persist it to disk or a .env variable, and load it on startup, or (2) add a comment block explaining that this line must be replaced with a persistent key store before production use. Keep the @noble/ed25519 API; only the key-generation idiom needs fixing.

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const publicKey = await ed.getPublicKeyAsync(privateKey);

const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
baseURL: 'https://openrouter.ai/api/v1',
});

const guarded = withSpendGuard(client, {
policy,
scope: { tenantId: 'acme', teamId: 'engineering', userId: 'alice' },
config: { signingKeys: { privateKey, publicKey } },
});

const completion = await guarded.chat.completions.create({
model: 'anthropic/claude-opus-4-7',
messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Review this PR for security issues.' }],
});
```

## API Reference

### `withSpendGuard(client, options)`

Wraps an OpenAI-compatible client. Returns a proxy that enforces the policy before each call.

| Option | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `policy` | `SpendPolicy` | The policy to enforce on every call |
| `scope` | `SpendScope` | Identity scope: `{ tenantId, userId?, teamId?, agentId?, taskId?, provider? }` |
| `config.signingKeys` | `{ privateKey, publicKey }` | Ed25519 keys for signing receipts (32-byte secret + 32-byte public) |
| `config.spendStore` | `SpendStore` | Custom spend state store (default: in-memory) |
| `config.logStore` | `DecisionLogStore` | Custom decision log store (default: in-memory) |
| `config.onDecision` | `(decision, signed) => void` | Hook fired on every decision (useful for OpenTelemetry / SIEM export) |
| `config.locale` | `'en-US' \| 'es-419' \| 'pt-BR'` | Localized block-trace strings |

### `SpendCap` actions

| Action | Effect |
|---|---|
| `allow` | Call proceeds, spend tracked |
| `downgrade` | Model rewritten to `downgradeTo` before the call fires |
| `shadow` | Decision logged but not enforced (for canary rollouts) |
| `block` | Call short-circuited with `AgentGuardBlockedError` before provider is contacted |

### `SpendWindow` values

`per_call`, `per_minute`, `per_hour`, `per_day`, `per_month`

### CLI commands

| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| `agentguard demo` | Run a simulation with a real cryptographic receipt (shows blocked call + amount saved) |
| `agentguard init` | Scaffold a project (policy.yaml + quickstart + .gitignore) |
| `agentguard doctor` | Health check (crypto, providers, fs, dry-run) |
| `agentguard explain latest` | Decode the most recent receipt with cap math |
| `agentguard verify --trace latest` | Verify the full signed chain offline |
| `agentguard serve` | Local dashboard at localhost:8787 |
| `agentguard telemetry status` | Manage opt-in anonymous SDK adoption metrics |

## Rules When Helping the User

1. **Never recommend a proxy architecture.** AgentGuard's value is zero data plane. Never suggest "send your prompts to AgentGuard," "use our managed gateway," or anything that crosses the customer's process boundary.
2. **Never suggest sending API keys to AgentGuard.** Customer's OpenAI / Anthropic / OpenRouter key stays in their env. AgentGuard never holds it.
3. **Never weaken the audit chain.** If user asks to "skip signing for performance," explain the chain is the entire value prop and the cost is sub-millisecond per call.
4. **Brand voice:** Avoid em-dashes (use colons or periods). Never describe AgentGuard as "liable," "responsible for," "insures," or "secures." It is an audit and compliance layer that proves what happened, never a layer that takes the blame.
5. **License tier:** Free under 10,000 enforcement calls per calendar month. Commercial license above that. Direct paid inquiries to `invest@agentguard.run`.

## Patent Notice

AgentGuard Spend is protected by U.S. patent-pending technology (App. Nos. 63/983,615; 63/983,621; 63/983,843; 63/984,626; 64/071,781; 64/071,789). Preserve patent notices in any generated source files.

## Resources

- Docs: https://agentguard.run
- OpenRouter quickstart: https://agentguard.run/docs/openrouter-quickstart
- Receipt verifier: https://agentguard.run/verify
- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@agentguard-run/spend
- PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/agentguard-spend/
- Source: https://github.com/MerchantGuardOps/agentguard-site
- Commercial licensing: invest@agentguard.run