Budget-Literate Autonomy for Agentic Systems
Ratelord provides a "sensory organ" and "prefrontal cortex" for resource availability and budget planning, enabling systems to negotiate, forecast, govern, and adapt under constraints.
Core Capabilities
Built to solve the "blind agent" problem by making resource constraints a first-class citizen in autonomous systems.
Local-First Architecture
Zero-ops daemon that runs alongside your agents, providing low-latency constraint management without external dependencies.
Event-Sourced System
Complete audit trail of all constraint decisions and budget allocations, fully replayable for debugging and analysis.
Predictive Modeling
Time-to-exhaustion forecasts help agents plan their activities based on real-time resource availability.
Intent Negotiation
Standardized protocol for agents to request resources and negotiate budgets before execution.
Hierarchical Modeling
Model complex constraint relationships with nested scopes and resource pools.
Provider Agnostic
Extensible design that supports any API or resource type, starting with GitHub API integration.
The Vision
Autonomous agents today are "blind" to the economic and rate-limiting realities of the APIs they consume. They hit limits unexpectedly, burn through budgets, and fail to plan effectively.
Ratelord introduces Budget-Literate Autonomy. By acting as a sensory organ for constraints, it allows agents to "feel" the pressure of limits before they are hit, enabling sophisticated negotiation and planning strategies.
Core Principles
- Local-First: No external SaaS dependencies for critical path decisions.
- Daemon Authority: Centralized truth for resource state.
- Negotiation Mandate: Agents must ask before they act.
- Prediction: Reactive is not enough; we must forecast.
Current Status
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We are actively looking for contributors to help build the future of agentic constraint management.
View Open Issues →Documentation
Comprehensive guides for installing, configuring, and integrating Ratelord into your agentic systems.
Getting Started
Installation instructions, basic setup, and first identity registration.
Read Guide →Architecture
Detailed breakdown of components: daemon, storage, clients, and providers.
Explore Architecture →Core Concepts
Understand constraint graphs, identities, scopes, pools, forecasts, and policies.
Learn Concepts →API Reference
HTTP endpoints and the intent negotiation protocol specification.
View Reference →Configuration
Setting up policy files, providers, and system parameters.
Configure System →Troubleshooting
Common issues, log analysis, and debugging strategies.
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