The bill is bigger than it should be. Or something quietly stopped working. Or the whole thing just feels off. We’ve seen it before, we know where to look, and we fix it without touching anything you don’t approve.
Cost leaks the operator can’t see from the dashboard.
A common one: the agent’s memory file has quietly grown past what the runtime can actually read. Every conversation re-sends a giant payload that gets silently trimmed before the agent ever sees it. Bigger bill, smaller brain. We’ve seen this drive $250/day in unintended Anthropic charges on a single instance.
Old automations still firing into the most expensive model around the clock, long after whatever they were doing stopped mattering.
Things that fail without raising an alarm.
Auth tokens expired. A scheduled sync hasn’t actually run. A channel hasn’t actually reconnected. There’s no error — just a quiet absence of the thing it used to do.
Your config claims a sync runs every hour. The system has no record of running it in six weeks. The agent answers questions based on stale data and sounds confident doing it.
Memory and context have rotted.
Terminated work, expired deadlines, dead initiatives — all still loaded into the agent’s working memory and influencing every reply.
A deadline from March is still flagged urgent in May. The agent prioritizes ghosts and asks you about things you finished or abandoned.
For people running more than one instance.
Security guardrails, channel rules, behavior fixes — you remember setting them up, but they’re only in place on one instance.
Sub-agents and integrations from earlier ideas, never cleaned up, slowly drifting further out of sync each week.
Soft symptoms that usually point at real problems.
Reconnect loops, dropped sessions, websockets falling over. Usually a small misconfiguration that’s also burning agent runs every time it cycles.
Some things you’re fighting are actually security features doing their job. We tell you when to stop trying to fix them.
For the engineers reading this — these are the actual signatures we sweep on a rescue audit. If any of them mean something to you, you already know why we look:
Findings are written up in plain English. The technical detail is available if you want it; not required reading if you don’t.
You tell us what feels off. We tell you what an audit costs.
Read-only audit. You see every finding before anything is touched.
Then hand back a healthier instance and a written report.
It can show you exactly what’s wrong, and what it’ll cost to fix.