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Tisha Chawla
Tisha Chawla

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Hacktoberfest 2026: help us govern (and reproduce) AI agents

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

We're Tisha and @susheem-k, and we maintain two open-source projects for people building AI agents. Both are opted into Hacktoberfest 2026 with good first issues tagged and waiting.

The projects

TokenOps — cost and control governance for AI agents. Budgets, guardrails, a spend ledger, and policy enforcement across single- and multi-agent runs. If you've ever watched an agent quietly burn through your token budget, this is the layer that stops it.

Chronicle — record-and-replay for agents. Capture a production failure once, then re-run your fix deterministically without live model calls, turning an incident into a committed regression test. (To appear at REALM @ EMNLP 2026.)

Where to start

We've tagged self-contained issues you can actually finish in a sitting:

TokenOps

Chronicle

Full list: the hacktoberfest label on each repo.

How to contribute

  1. Comment on an issue before you start, so we can agree on the approach.
  2. Keep PRs focused, add tests when behavior changes, run the checks.
  3. Sign off your commits (DCO).

We review for quality, not volume, so low-effort or automated PRs get marked invalid. But a real, reviewed PR here is a genuine contribution to tooling that keeps AI agents safe and affordable, and we'll help you land it.

See you in the issues.

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