AI Agents in an Iron Cage
summary
An open-source Rust control plane called IronCage enforces agent guardrails at runtime: a local atomic wallet reserves micro-dollar budgets with sub-millisecond, lock-free checks to stop requests before they leave the machine, returning unused funds to the central bank; scoped, revocable IC tokens replace developer provider keys; circuit breakers block failing providers; audit logs capture prompts and responses for compliance; demo claims register 10 providers and 10 team members in about 60 seconds, and prevents runaway bills like an $8,000 spike.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07AI agents never reach production
- 3:16Infrastructure gap in deployment
- 5:38Rust for production AI agents
- 8:09IronCage: AI control panel
- 10:19IronCage architecture and enforcement
- 12:46Hard budget limits without latency
- 15:41Secure key management with tokens
- 17:04Handling provider outages
- 18:29Comparison with LightLLM
- 20:15Who should use IronCage
- 20:57Live demo: team setup in 60s
- 24:28Summary
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