https://vpnw.com/tags/budgets/ Recent content in Budgets on VPNW.com Hugo en-us Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vpnw.com/vpn-works-0.9.0-cuts-an-ai-agent-off-at-its-byte-budget-and-records-why/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vpnw.com/vpn-works-0.9.0-cuts-an-ai-agent-off-at-its-byte-budget-and-records-why/ <p><strong>VPN Works 0.9.0 gives Guard plugins byte budgets. A Guard lets a connection through with a budget, and the kernel counts every byte, cuts the connection when the budget runs out, and writes down why. The built-in Budget plugin uses it: a list of the hosts a program may reach, each with how much it may send, receive and open.</strong></p> <p>An AI coding agent with the network can send your repository anywhere. A policy already says where it may go. What it didn&rsquo;t say until now is how much: an agent allowed to post to one paste site or one API could still push a whole archive through it.</p>