NORNR
Mandates, approvals and evidence for autonomous agents.
Guides
Tutorial libraryPractical guides for governed agent spend.
Framework-specific tutorials, control patterns and use-case walkthroughs for teams adding budgets, approvals and evidence to real agent workflows.
Core pages
Start with the five pages that should carry the whole library.
These are the main entry points for your problem statement, framework intent, approval model and audit-trail wedge.
Agent spend governance for AI agents
Budgets, approvals, counterparties and audit trail for AI agents that are getting close to real spend.
Read pillar Approvals / 11 minutesHuman approval for agent payments
How to add human approval to agent payments without turning every workflow into manual operations.
Read pillar LangChain / 10 minutesHow to give your LangChain agent a budget in 10 minutes
Add a governed wallet, budget threshold and decision handling to a LangChain workflow with NORNR in 10 minutes.
Read guide OpenAI Agents SDK / 10 minutesHow to add approval rules to an OpenAI Agents SDK workflow
Add approval thresholds to an OpenAI Agents SDK workflow so expensive or risky steps pause before money moves.
Read guide Audit trail / 8 minutesHow to add audit trail before agent spend moves
Add a decision trail, receipt context and operator-readable history before agent spend moves.
Read guideFramework guides
Framework guides
Concrete framework integrations for teams who want to add spend controls without rebuilding their whole agent stack.
How to gate paid tool calls in LangGraph
Gate paid LangGraph tool calls with NORNR so graph edges only reach expensive actions after policy says yes.
Read guide OpenAI Agents SDK / 9 minutesHow to add budget limits to an OpenAI Agents SDK agent
Put budget limits in front of an OpenAI Agents SDK agent so it cannot burn through paid calls without policy.
Read guide LangGraph / 11 minutesHow to add approvals to a LangGraph workflow
Add an approval branch to a LangGraph workflow so risky paid actions queue for review instead of running automatically.
Read guide CrewAI / 10 minutesHow to add spend controls to a CrewAI flow
Add NORNR spend controls to a CrewAI flow so paid tasks run only when policy allows them.
Read guide AutoGen / 11 minutesHow to add audit trail to AutoGen tool execution
Attach a decision trail to AutoGen tool execution so paid or risky steps stay reviewable afterward.
Read guide Vendor actions / 9 minutesHow to add human approval before an agent hits a vendor API
Pause agent-driven vendor API calls for human approval when they cross a risk or spend threshold.
Read guideControl patterns
Control patterns
Implementation patterns for the actual controls teams ask for once agent workflows stop being toy demos.
How to stop an agent from overspending on APIs
Use NORNR to stop runaway API spend by forcing each paid call through budget and approval policy.
Read guide Decision model / 7 minutesAgent spend governance: approved vs queued vs rejected
Understand what approved, queued and rejected mean in agent spend governance and how to handle each path cleanly.
Read guide Counterparty controls / 9 minutesHow to add counterparty controls to agent workflows
Use NORNR to restrict which vendors or counterparties an agent may spend against.
Read guide Tool budgets / 8 minutesHow to add budget caps to agent tool calls
Add budget caps to tool calls so expensive actions cannot accumulate silently behind an agent loop.
Read guide Review flow / 8 minutesHow to review agent spend before money moves
Review agent spend before execution by routing risky requests into an approval queue instead of letting them settle immediately.
Read guide Auditability / 8 minutesHow to make agent actions auditable
Make agent actions auditable by persisting the NORNR decision next to the workflow run and outcome.
Read guide Human review / 9 minutesHow to add human-in-the-loop approval to paid agent workflows
Introduce human-in-the-loop approval only for risky paid agent actions instead of blocking every request.
Read guideUse cases
Use cases
Use-case specific implementations for teams already feeling real spend pressure inside agent workflows.
How to govern OpenAI API spend for research agents
Put OpenAI API spend for research agents behind budget, approval and evidence controls with NORNR.
Read guide Procurement / 10 minutesHow to add budget controls to a procurement agent
Add budget controls to a procurement agent so vendor actions stay inside a defined mandate.
Read guide Multi-agent ops / 10 minutesHow to add approvals to a multi-agent ops workflow
Add approvals to a multi-agent ops workflow so coordinator agents can pause expensive or risky actions cleanly.
Read guide Compute spend / 9 minutesHow to govern compute spend in agent workflows
Govern compute spend in agent workflows so expensive jobs do not launch without budget and review rules.
Read guide Evidence / 8 minutesHow to attach receipts and evidence to agent-triggered actions
Attach receipts and evidence to agent-triggered actions so operators can trace what happened after the decision.
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