Give your local agent a Bitcoin balance with hard spending caps it can't exceed — even under prompt injection
Summary
An open-source tool that enables AI agents to make Bitcoin Lightning payments with hard spending caps enforced server-side, preventing abuse even under prompt injection. Includes an MCP server for Claude Desktop/Cursor integration and Python/TypeScript SDKs.
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