THE LYCEUM
Circuit breakers for AI agents
Your agent
will fail.
The question
is what it costs you.
A runaway loop burns your cloud budget in an hour. A confident answer ships wrong at 2 a.m. A credential leaks to a log you don't control. Nothing stops it — until something does.
zsh — install & activate
01 — the panel
Three switches. One pool of tools your agents can't trip on their own.
brake
stops the action
Scans a planned action before it runs — data exfiltration, destructive commands, credential leaks. Blocks in under 1000ms, every call, on the hot path.
$ brake scan "rm -rf /var/db/production"
redteam
stops the argument
Challenges a one-sided conclusion before it ships — unsupported claims, confirmation bias, missing counter-evidence. Nine flaw classes, warn or block.
$ redteam challenge "this migration is safe"
thrift
stops the bill
Deduplicates and compresses tool output before it re-enters context — lossless first, truncation only as a last resort. Trips a runaway loop at 2 repeats.
$ thrift measure . --passes 5
1.45M/sec
brake — cloud throughput
295.3k/sec
redteam — cloud throughput
47.5k/sec
thrift — cloud throughput
274/274
tests passing
02 — measured, not promised
One command tells you exactly what it caught.
lyceum status reads each tool's own local log — not a marketing dashboard — and prints what actually happened on your machine.
3
blocked
$7.50
saved
52.2%
tokens cut
zsh — lyceum status
$ lyceum status
● brake 7 event(s) logged
3 blocked · 500,130 tokens saved · $7.50 saved
● redteam 33 challenge(s) logged
17 blocked of 33
● thrift 45 compression(s) logged
before 10,538 → after 5,034 tokens
52.2% saved
03 — what it costs when nothing stops it
Three ways an unguarded agent turns into an incident.
Financial loss
The bill nobody saw coming
"We were burning $4,000/hour and the agent was stuck on a 500."
Operational collapse
The confident crash
"It said it was sure. The on-call page said otherwise."
Reputational damage
The leak you find out about last
"We didn't know it had been copied until the audit."
Install it before you need it.
One command. No repo to clone. brake, redteam, and thrift, all three.
any blank terminal
$ npm install -g the-lyceum
added 94 packages