diff --git a/backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentProvisionerServiceK8s.test.js b/backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentProvisionerServiceK8s.test.js
index afa0d9badd..1738be5382 100644
--- a/backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentProvisionerServiceK8s.test.js
+++ b/backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentProvisionerServiceK8s.test.js
@@ -570,7 +570,9 @@ describe('issueLiteLLMVirtualKey never sends the master key to LiteLLM', () => {
 
     const [url, body] = axios.post.mock.calls.find(([u]) => u.endsWith('/key/generate'));
     expect(url).toBe('http://litellm:4000/key/generate');
-    expect(body.max_budget).toBe(30);
+    // Sized above the heaviest agent's measured monthly (~$88/mo) with headroom;
+    // a bare max_budget is lifetime in LiteLLM, so budget_duration is required.
+    expect(body.max_budget).toBe(150);
     expect(body.budget_duration).toBe('30d');
   });
 
@@ -582,9 +584,31 @@ describe('issueLiteLLMVirtualKey never sends the master key to LiteLLM', () => {
     const [url, body] = axios.post.mock.calls.find(([u]) => u.endsWith('/key/generate'));
     expect(url).toBe('http://litellm:4000/key/generate');
     expect(body.user_id).toBe('community-agent');
-    expect(body.max_budget).toBe(30);
+    expect(body.max_budget).toBe(150);
     expect(body.budget_duration).toBe('30d');
   });
+
+  // 2026-10-28 key audit found 73 keys with no alias — attribution had to lean on
+  // user_id. Both mint paths now stamp a unique, human-readable key_alias so a
+  // key is traceable to its agent, and the uniqueness suffix avoids a 409 on
+  // delete-then-remint for the same agent (which would silently fail the seat).
+  it('stamps a unique, attributable key_alias on the virtual key', async () => {
+    k8s.__mock.execStdout = '';
+
+    await issueLiteLLMVirtualKey('theo');
+
+    const [, body] = axios.post.mock.calls.find(([u]) => u.endsWith('/key/generate'));
+    expect(body.key_alias).toMatch(/^agent-theo-\d+-[0-9a-f]{12}$/);
+  });
+
+  it('stamps a unique, attributable key_alias on the community/openrouter key', async () => {
+    k8s.__mock.execStdout = '';
+
+    await issueLiteLLMOpenRouterKey('community-agent');
+
+    const [, body] = axios.post.mock.calls.find(([u]) => u.endsWith('/key/generate'));
+    expect(body.key_alias).toMatch(/^agent-community-agent-openrouter-\d+-[0-9a-f]{12}$/);
+  });
 });
 
 
diff --git a/backend/services/agentProvisionerServiceK8s.ts b/backend/services/agentProvisionerServiceK8s.ts
index 2a7ce0523c..0e39e3d49f 100644
--- a/backend/services/agentProvisionerServiceK8s.ts
+++ b/backend/services/agentProvisionerServiceK8s.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ const stream = require('stream');
 const fs = require('fs');
 const os = require('os');
 const path = require('path');
+const crypto = require('crypto');
 const PodAsset = require('../models/PodAsset');
 const PodAssetService = require('./podAssetService');
 const GlobalModelConfigService = require('./globalModelConfigService');
@@ -54,13 +55,21 @@ const AGENT_TOLERATIONS = (() => {
 // misbehaving agent can't monopolize the single-replica LiteLLM proxy.
 const LITELLM_KEY_MAX_PARALLEL_REQUESTS = 4;
 const LITELLM_KEY_RPM_LIMIT = 120;
-// Monthly spend cap per issued key (D111, 2026-10-27). Unlike the breakers above
-// this IS a usage quota: since the GPT aliases were repointed at DeepSeek, and dead
-// routes fall back to it, calls through these keys are paid, while the
-// deepseek-v4-flash group budget sits on that model name, which alias callers never
-// touch. The whole proxy runs ~$15/mo, so $30 per agent only trips on a runaway.
+// Rolling spend cap per issued key. Unlike the breakers above this IS a usage
+// quota: since the GPT aliases were repointed at DeepSeek, and dead routes fall
+// back to it, calls through these keys are paid, while the deepseek-v4-flash
+// group budget sits on that model name, which alias callers never touch.
+//
+// Sized from measured monthly spend (2026-10-28 key audit, lifetime/age): the
+// heaviest agent, theo, runs ~$75-88/mo; nova ~$37/mo; others <$30/mo. The
+// first cut was a flat $30 (D111, 2026-10-27), which would 429 theo and nova
+// within one 30d window — a self-inflicted silent-seat outage. $150/30d clears
+// the heaviest legit agent with ~70% headroom while still bounding a leaked key
+// to a finite monthly spend instead of unlimited. budget_duration is REQUIRED:
+// a bare max_budget is lifetime in LiteLLM, so it would silence any key already
+// past the cap the moment it applied. Tighten per-agent later if needed.
 // A reused key keeps whatever budget it already carries; this stamps new ones.
-const LITELLM_KEY_MAX_BUDGET_USD = 30;
+const LITELLM_KEY_MAX_BUDGET_USD = 150;
 const LITELLM_KEY_BUDGET_DURATION = '30d';
 
 /**
@@ -1660,6 +1669,13 @@ const issueLiteLLMVirtualKey = async (agentId: any) => {
         rpm_limit: LITELLM_KEY_RPM_LIMIT,
         max_budget: LITELLM_KEY_MAX_BUDGET_USD,
         budget_duration: LITELLM_KEY_BUDGET_DURATION,
+        // Human-readable attribution on the key (the 2026-10-28 audit found 73 keys
+        // with no alias). Suffixed with a mint timestamp AND 6 random bytes because
+        // LiteLLM enforces key_alias uniqueness: a bare `agent-<id>` would 409 when a
+        // stale key is deleted and re-minted for the same agent, and two concurrent
+        // mints can read the same Date.now() millisecond — either silently fails the
+        // seat. The random suffix makes the alias collision-free regardless of clock.
+        key_alias: `agent-${agentId}-${Date.now()}-${crypto.randomBytes(6).toString('hex')}`,
         metadata: { agent_id: agentId, provisioned_at: new Date().toISOString() },
       },
       { headers },
@@ -1741,6 +1757,7 @@ const issueLiteLLMOpenRouterKey = async (agentId: any) => {
         rpm_limit: LITELLM_KEY_RPM_LIMIT,
         max_budget: LITELLM_KEY_MAX_BUDGET_USD,
         budget_duration: LITELLM_KEY_BUDGET_DURATION,
+        key_alias: `agent-${agentId}-openrouter-${Date.now()}-${crypto.randomBytes(6).toString('hex')}`,
         metadata: { agent_id: agentId, key_type: 'openrouter', provisioned_at: new Date().toISOString() },
       },
       { headers },
diff --git a/k8s/helm/commonly/templates/configmaps/litellm-config.yaml b/k8s/helm/commonly/templates/configmaps/litellm-config.yaml
index 0739d438e3..0ded542327 100644
--- a/k8s/helm/commonly/templates/configmaps/litellm-config.yaml
+++ b/k8s/helm/commonly/templates/configmaps/litellm-config.yaml
@@ -344,8 +344,20 @@ data:
       master_key: os.environ/LITELLM_MASTER_KEY
       database_url: os.environ/DATABASE_URL
       store_model_in_db: true
-      # Allow UI access
-      ui_access_mode: "all"
+      # Restrict the admin UI to admin users. The UI is not publicly routed
+      # (the nginx ingress maps only litellm.commonly.me/v1), so this is
+      # defense-in-depth against a future ingress/tunnel change exposing it.
+      ui_access_mode: "admin_only"
+      # Reject client-supplied upstream overrides on requests: api_base / base_url
+      # and the provider endpoint + credential-override fields in LiteLLM's
+      # _BANNED_REQUEST_BODY_PARAMS. The /v1 endpoint is public for BYO goose/pi
+      # callers and is key-gated, so a leaked virtual key must NOT be usable to
+      # redirect to arbitrary upstreams on our spend — which this blocks.
+      # NOTE: on v1.106.2 this does NOT ban a request-body `api_key` (it is not in
+      # _BANNED_REQUEST_BODY_PARAMS); that path would bill the caller's own key,
+      # not our spend, so it is out of scope for this setting.
+      # Default is already false; set explicitly so it can't drift (2026-10-28).
+      allow_client_side_credentials: false
       # Spend log retention — without these, LiteLLM_SpendLogs grows unbounded
       # (prod dev observed 5+ GB on the 8 GiB Cloud SQL tier before this cap).
       # STORE_PROMPTS_IN_SPEND_LOGS=false keeps raw prompt and response text