CircuitBreaker: The AI Agent's Seatbelt

CircuitBreaker: The AI Agent's Safety Belt

The Problem

A third of businesses used AI agents. 97% say they don't have the right controls.

• Replit's AI erased production databases
• The tea app leaked private information.
• Browser agents work at "Level 4-5 autonomy" with no safety nets.

Everyone is making AI agents. No one is making the seatbelt.

The Answer

CircuitBreaker is a layer that sits between AI agents and their tools and lets them intervene in real time.

AI Agent → CircuitBreaker → Running a Tool
↓
Risk Evaluation
↓
Block / Escalate / Allow

Key Features

• ⚡ Millisecond response (sub-10ms with Redis cache)
• 🤖 AI-powered risk analysis (LLM Judge for novel attacks)
• 🛡️ 5 default guardrails (production-ready)
• 📊 Compliance exports (CSV/JSON for SOC 2)
• 🔧 Works with any agent (Cursor, LangChain, OpenAI)

Quick Start

bash
pip install circuitbreaker

from circuitbreaker import CircuitBreaker, ExecutionContext

cb = CircuitBreaker()

result = cb.evaluate(
    tool="file.delete",
    params={"path": "/important/data.txt"},
    context=ExecutionContext(environment="production")
)

if not result. allowed:
    print(f"🚫 Blocked: {result.reason}")

GitHub

github.com/CirkuitbreakerSwitch/Circuitbreaker
Open source. MIT license.
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