We catch silent coordination failures in agent systems. What should we ship next?

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Summary

An open-source tool designed to detect silent coordination failures in agent systems, such as infinite loops and traffic spikes, with future plans for FinOps features to track costs and prevent budget overruns.

OSS layer for the kind of agent failures that tracing tools miss. Works for single-agent with tools, single-agent with MCP, or multi-agent workflows (CrewAI, LangGraph, custom). What we catch today: 1. Silent loops between agents: Researcher to Writer to Reviewer that bounces forever because the Reviewer never approves. 2. Repeated agent or tool calls: Same task fired 50 times, nobody noticed. 3. Traffic spikes: Sudden burst of calls way out of pattern. What we are working on for FinOps. The goal is actually to save money, not just the dashboard itself: 1. Workflow budget cap: Dollar limit for the whole run, halts before crossing. 2. Cost attributed to the failure or any other coordination or silent failure: "This $500 was burned in a silent loop. Here is the cycle." 3. Slow loop detection: The $0.05 per minute loop that burns $500 a week, way under any rate cap. 4. MCP retry loop detection: Agent retrying a flaky MCP server forever. 5. Approval bypass detection: A destructive tool was fired without the approval step (Replit case). Would love to hear: is any of this actually useful, which one feels must-have versus nice-to-have, and would you try it locally if we ship it. We would rather build the thing one of you would actually run than ship five no one needs.our website in comments
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