Can Adversaries Game Your Economic Firewall?

Can Adversaries Game Your Economic Firewall? The Emerging Threat Landscape for AI Agent Cost Governance Economic firewalls are having a moment. As organizations deploy autonomous AI agents that make real API calls with real costs, the industry has converged on a simple truth: you need a budget enforcer between your agents and your wallet. Rate limits aren't enough. API keys aren't enough. You need something that understands cost, delegates authority, and fails closed. But here's the question nobody's asking loudly enough: what happens when the threat isn't a runaway agent — it's an adversary? We built economic firewalls for accidents. A coding agent that gets stuck in a loop and burns through $400 of GPT-4 calls. A data pipeline agent that retries indefinitely against a paid API. These are real problems, and economic firewalls solve them elegantly. Budget exceeded, request denied, crisis averted. That's the easy case. The hard case is an attacker who understands your controls and delib