> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.natural.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> Limits on how much money can move without extra approval

Limits cap how much money can move without additional approval. This section manages your **account limits**, a setting on your [Party](/guides/concepts/parties) rather than a resource of its own: one cap per transaction, one per day, and one per month. Account limits are the backstop over everything you and your agents do.

## Holds, not blocks

A limit never hard-blocks a payment. A movement that breaches a cap still succeeds as an API call, but no money moves: it holds as an [Approval](/guides/concepts/approvals) until someone approves or denies it.

## Three gates

Account limits are one of three gates a movement can pass through. Agent limits live on the [Agent](/guides/concepts/agents) and hold one agent to a tighter budget; connection limits are set by your customer when they authorize an agent. Every applicable gate must clear, so in effect the tightest cap wins. See the [Limits guide](/guides/controls/limits) for how they compose.

## Who sets them

You do, from a user session, an API key, or the dashboard. An agent can read the caps that gate it, so it can explain why a payment was held, but it can never set, raise, or remove them.