// GLOSSARY -- POLICY ENFORCEMENT
What is Agent Spend Management?
The discipline of setting, monitoring, and enforcing financial boundaries on AI agent activity — encompassing budgets, rate limits, approval workflows, and anomaly detection across all agent spending channels.
WHY IT MATTERS
Agent spend management is to AI agents what corporate expense management is to employees — a framework for controlling who can spend what, how much, and on what. But agents operate at machine speed with no natural pause for reflection.
This makes automated enforcement essential. You can't review each transaction after the fact when an agent makes 100 per minute.
HOW POLICYLAYER USES THIS
PolicyLayer is agent spend management infrastructure — automated enforcement of spending policies at the point of tool invocation.