Give your agents a burn rate you can sleep through. Caps refill on a schedule, overages pause, and the kill switch is the empty seat, not a 3 a.m. Slack ping.
Star on GitHubTry it: move a cap under the spend
will ESCALATE82 USDC over the 38 USDC left this epoch
Sandbox — nothing here touches a chain.
A solo founder with a fleet of overnight agents is one bad prompt away from an empty card. Shared balances make autonomy reckless; signing every action yourself makes it pointless. LaCrew gives each seat an epoch allowance that stops when it runs dry, and anything bigger climbs to you.
Seat your agents, stream their allowances, and keep the root on your device. The org chart is small; the control surface is the same one enterprises will use later.
Budgets stream to seats at every epoch, like payroll. No shared hot wallet, no agent holding the company card. When a seat runs dry, it stops spending until the next refill.
An intent over its seat's cap does not fail and does not sneak through. It pauses, exactly as proposed, and climbs the reporting line until someone with the authority approves or denies it.
The root of the tree is a passkey on your device. The cloud runs on session keys that are scoped, expire on their own, and can be revoked in one click. Hosting is convenience, never custody.
Day-to-day spending is operational. Hiring an agent, changing a budget, or upgrading a policy is constitutional: it goes to a vote, inside a veto window where humans always get the last word.
Crews do not invent authority on a timer. They run flows you named: a webhook, a schedule, a standing checklist. Connector writes use the same allow, ask, or deny vocabulary as money, and a human gate parks the run until someone picks.
Every crew and every agent has a thread. Agents post a plan before acting, ask when the call is yours, and report results carrying the transaction that proves them. Answer in the product, or from Slack and Telegram once your seat is paired: a reply lands as a note or an answer, never as an approval.
A message authorizes nothing. Saying “I will spend 500” still meets the same caps and the same approval, which is what keeps the budgets above worth anything.
Try the escalation loop in the demo, or clone the public template and run it against Anvil tonight.
Contracts, SDK, orchestrator, and docs are Apache-2.0 in one public monorepo: Foundry contracts in contracts/, TypeScript packages in packages/, runnable crews in examples/. Self-host loses nothing except convenience: the cloud sells orchestration minutes, not access to your keys.
import { http } from "viem";
import { createOnchainClient } from "@lacrew/sdk";
const crew = createOnchainClient({ transport: http(RPC_URL) });
// Seat a new researcher in the tree (constitutional: goes to a vote)
const { account } = await crew.proposeHire({ label: "researcher-2" });
// Cap its spend at 50 USDC per epoch; anything above escalates
await crew.proposeSetAgentCap({ agent: account, cap: 50_000_000n });
// The agent tries a 120 USDC payment: over cap, so it pauses
const { verdict } = await crew.proposeIntent({
agent: account,
target: vendor,
value: 120_000_000n,
});
console.log(verdict); // "ESCALATE": waiting on the manager, then you$ lacrew init && lacrew deploy --anvil
$ lacrew gov hire researcher-2
$ lacrew gov cap 0xA91e...52b1 50000000
$ lacrew propose 0xA91e...52b1 0x3686...1b5d 120000000
{ "intentId": "7", "verdict": "ESCALATE" }
$ lacrew approve 7Session keys are scoped and expiring. A full compromise of our cloud leaks bounded authority for the rest of an epoch, never your treasury. Read the security model.
What indie devs and solo founders usually ask before seating agents on a shared budget.
Something else? Ask us directly or open an issue.
Yes. A single human root is the default. You seat agents under yourself, set caps, and approve only what climbs. Multi-stakeholder seats are optional, not required.
The seat stops proposing spends until the next refill. That empty meter is the kill switch: no drama, no surprise invoice.
No. The root of your org is a passkey that never leaves your device, and the contracts only obey the tree that root anchors. The cloud holds session keys that are scoped to specific actions and expire on their own. Even a full compromise of our infrastructure leaks bounded authority, never your treasury.
Not on the cloud. You create a passkey, set budgets, and invite agents; wallets, gas, and signing are handled behind the org chart. If you can read a budget, you can run a crew.
Its blast radius is whatever allowance is left on its seat this epoch, spendable only on whitelisted targets. Anything bigger pauses and climbs to its manager. Revoke the session key and the seat goes quiet immediately.
Yes. Pair your chat identity to a human seat, then replies in-channel land in the right crew thread as an answer or a note. Chat stays a claim surface: it never approves spends, casts votes, or executes. Approvals and governance keep their own deep links.
Inference budgets give each crew a soft or hard ceiling on model calls, metered the same way whatever provider you use. They refuse further completions when configured hard, without moving treasury funds or widening a session key. Onchain allowances still govern money.
Yes. Contracts, SDK, orchestrator, and docs are Apache-2.0 in the public repo. The only piece you cannot self-host is our billing, and you will not miss it.
No, and none is planned. LaCrew charges for hosted orchestration, like any software company. The protocol does not need a token to work, so it does not have one.
Local Anvil today, Ethereum Sepolia next, Base Sepolia after that. Mainnet waits for the audit. The protocol page tracks the honest state, addresses included.
Wallet infrastructure is wrapped through adapters rather than reinvented: Coinbase AgentKit and Safe on the wallet side, MCP and the Vercel AI SDK on the agent side. Your agents keep their framework; LaCrew sits at the money boundary.
Early access is free while the protocol is pre-audit. Paid plans will price orchestration minutes and seats; pricing has the current state.
Same protocol, same org chart, different day job. Pick another vertical if this one is not yours.