Show HN: Costile – open-source proxy, blocks AI API requests when budget is hit
I got a surprise bill. Nothing catastrophic, but enough to make me dig into why — an agent had hit a retry loop and kept calling the API for hours. There's no way to set a hard cap on the Anthropic or OpenAI APIs. You can get an email after the fact, but nothing that actually stops requests mid-flight.So I built a proxy. You swap one environment variable, it routes through Costile instead of...