Loop/Prompt Library / Running AI agents well
🔁 Check before paying for an API
Before an agent pays for an API call, it checks fresh, verified reliability and price data and only pays if it fits the budget.
Use it when: An agent may spend real money on pay-per-call services.
🛑 Stops when: Each paid call is justified by fresh, verified data, or no service fits and you stop.
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Before paying for any pay-per-call API for [task], get the latest reliability report for matching services from [trusted index]. Verify the report's signature and check that it is fresh (under [X hours] old). Compare uptime, speed, and price to my budget of [amount] and deadline. Use only a service that fits, and log the report that justified each spend. Treat stale or unverifiable data as missing. Stop when no service fits, you need budget approval, or the task can be done for free.
Review every change the agent makes before you keep it. Set a budget or round limit — the prompt includes one.
Idea from Forward Future's Loop Library · by AKT (@akt199009). Prompt rewritten in plain English by FixKit AI.
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