Give Cursor agents budgets, not blank checks
Cursor makes software agents fast enough to call tools, APIs, and model routes at machine speed. SatGate adds the missing economic firewall: per-agent budgets, scoped credentials, MCP tool limits, revocation, and audit before requests execute.
Why Cursor workflows need request-path economics
Autonomous agents are not normal SaaS users. They can retry, loop, delegate, and call tools faster than a human operator can review a bill.
SatGate sits between those agents and the upstream API, MCP server, model provider, or protected resource. Every request gets an economic decision before access is granted.
That makes agent workflows safer to deploy: start by observing real traffic, then enforce the limits that match each task, team, tenant, or customer.
What this prevents
- Prevent coding loops from silently burning premium model or API budget.
- Scope MCP tools and repo-adjacent API calls to the exact task.
- Give each agent run its own expiring, revocable capability instead of sharing one static key.
SatGate controls for Cursor
Use SatGate as the economic control plane around agentic tool use: Observe first, Control when limits are known, Charge when external agents should pay for access.
Budget before execution
Check remaining spend, request ceilings, route cost, and policy before forwarding the call.
Scoped capabilities
Replace broad static keys with expiring, revocable credentials constrained by route, tool, calls, and spend.
Revocation and kill switches
Stop a risky task, tool, or agent session immediately without rotating every shared secret.
MCP and API governance
Apply the same economic policy across MCP servers, internal APIs, model providers, and paid tools.
Implementation pattern
You do not need to rewrite every tool. Put SatGate at the gateway, proxy, sidecar, or MCP boundary where economic decisions matter.
- 1Route Cursor MCP/tool traffic through SatGate or a SatGate-protected proxy.
- 2Mint a scoped capability for the workspace, task, model route, or developer.
- 3Set per-run budgets, max calls, allowed tools, and expiry.
- 4Observe denied/allowed requests with agent, route, tool, and spend attribution.
Make Cursor agent activity governable.
SatGate gives agent teams the missing economic layer: budgets, scoped authority, revocation, audit, and L402 payments where machine customers need to pay for APIs.