Agent Spend Guard — owner-set purchasing guardrails MCP server
Free spend guardrails for AI agents: approve/deny/ask_user, caps, dupes.
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Agent Spend Guard — owner-set purchasing guardrails tools (4, 2 write)
write = sends, deletes, buys or postsspend_guard_check_purchasewrite actionFreeHumans: sign up with your email at https://a2awire.com/api-key and create an API key, then hand it to your agent (it sends Authorization: Bearer <key> or X-API-Key with every call). Agents without an account: a reviewable bootstrap script is served at https://a2awire.com/api/v1/connectors/spend-guard/bootstrap.sh (download it, read it, then run it to mint a key). Call BEFORE checkout. Evaluate a proposed purchase (merchant, amount_usd) against the owner's spend rules and recent ledger. Returns a decision (approve, deny, or ask_user), a plain-English reason, the remaining monthly budget when a cap is set, and a check_id. deny means denylisted merchant or over the monthly cap; ask_user means above the per-purchase threshold or a possible duplicate of a purchase in the last 10 minutes. Optional tx_ref is your idempotency key for this purchase; pass the same value to spend_guard_record_purchase afterwards. Appends a check event; checks never consume budget. USD only (the currency argument is kept for forward compatibility; any other value is rejected). Not guest-callable. REST: POST /api/v1/spend-guard/check.
spend_guard_record_purchasewrite actionFreeHumans: sign up with your email at https://a2awire.com/api-key and create an API key, then hand it to your agent (it sends Authorization: Bearer <key> or X-API-Key with every call). Agents without an account: a reviewable bootstrap script is served at https://a2awire.com/api/v1/connectors/spend-guard/bootstrap.sh (download it, read it, then run it to mint a key). Call AFTER checkout. Record a completed purchase in the owner's spend ledger. tx_ref is required and unique per owner: replaying the same tx_ref returns the original record without double counting (recorded_previously is true when the tx_ref was already in your ledger before this call, an idempotent replay; false on first write). Optional check_id links the record to its prior spend_guard_check_purchase; a check_id already recorded returns a conflict error. Returns the recorded event and the month-to-date total. USD only (the currency argument is kept for forward compatibility; any other value is rejected). Not guest-callable. REST: POST /api/v1/spend-guard/record.
spend_guard_reportFreeHumans: sign up with your email at https://a2awire.com/api-key and create an API key, then hand it to your agent (it sends Authorization: Bearer <key> or X-API-Key with every call). Agents without an account: a reviewable bootstrap script is served at https://a2awire.com/api/v1/connectors/spend-guard/bootstrap.sh (download it, read it, then run it to mint a key). Month-to-date spend summary for the calling owner: total USD recorded, purchase count, top merchants (up to 5), current rules, and remaining monthly budget when a cap is set. Optional month (YYYY-MM) reads a prior month; defaults to the current UTC month. Not guest-callable. REST: GET /api/v1/spend-guard/report.
spend_guard_set_rulesFreeHumans: sign up with your email at https://a2awire.com/api-key and create an API key, then hand it to your agent (it sends Authorization: Bearer <key> or X-API-Key with every call). Agents without an account: a reviewable bootstrap script is served at https://a2awire.com/api/v1/connectors/spend-guard/bootstrap.sh (download it, read it, then run it to mint a key). Set the calling owner's spend-guard rules: an optional monthly cap in USD, an optional per-purchase threshold in USD, and an optional exact-match merchant denylist (case-insensitive). Full declaration: omit or null a field to clear that rule. With no rules every check approves (observation mode) and purchases are still recorded. Returns the effective rules. Not guest-callable. REST: PUT /api/v1/spend-guard/rules.
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.9 · 2026-09-23 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
- –Code scanremote-only server, no package to scann/a
- Live reliabilityremote reachable in 301ms20/20
- Tool poisoning4 tool descriptions checked15/15
- Auth qualityopen endpoint exposes 2 write-action tools with no auth3/15
- Maintenancerepository not readable: repo not found3/15
- Maintainer identityverified namespace with website, no repo4/10
Findings (1)
- highWrite-action tools reachable without authentication
auth.open-write
Install directly
claude mcp add --transport http agent-spend-guard https://a2awire.com/mcp/connectors/spend-guard/http
Agent Spend Guard — owner-set purchasing guardrails: common questions
- Is Agent Spend Guard — owner-set purchasing guardrails MCP server safe?
- With care: it is graded C, so read the findings first (60/100). Read the Agent Spend Guard — owner-set purchasing guardrails safety report
- How do I install Agent Spend Guard — owner-set purchasing guardrails?
- It runs remotely at a2awire.com. Add it to Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Cursor with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Agent Spend Guard — owner-set purchasing guardrails need an API key?
- Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
- Is Agent Spend Guard — owner-set purchasing guardrails maintained?
- The latest release is v0.1.0.
- Is Agent Spend Guard — owner-set purchasing guardrails up?
- 100% of our last 3 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- What can I use instead of Agent Spend Guard — owner-set purchasing guardrails?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: three.ws Autopilot MCP server, HOL Guard MCP server and Ask LLM MCP server. Compare all Agent Spend Guard — owner-set purchasing guardrails alternatives.
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