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Rigour Labs

Let AI agents move fast. Rigour keeps them under control.

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AI agents are getting insanely capable. The real problem now isn’t generating code — it’s controlling what agents can do, proving what they changed, and making each run smarter than the last. Rigour is the open-source control plane for AI coding agents: context, policy, deterministic verification, MCP governance, signed evidence, Fix Packets, memory, and learning. Let agents move fast. Keep engineering under control.

PH · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 1 view

Niche: ai agent guardrail software · 200 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▲ +20% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Compliance & governance
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • Software Engineering
  • Developer Tools
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Partial A basic CLI tool checking regexes and file paths is vibe-codeable, but deep AST analysis across multiple languages, zero-width steganography detection, and hooking real-time IDE/CLI workflows require systems engineering.

What it would actually take: A robust CLI governance engine requires tree-sitter or multi-language AST parsers to inspect file mutations across 6+ programming languages, coupled with robust heuristic engines for entropy calculation, Unicode normalization, and MCP protocol servers. The hard part is building low-latency, tamper-resistant system interception hooks across various developer agents (Cursor, Copilot, CLI processes) without causing performance degradation or false-positive breakage in active developer workflows.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 2162 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #716 of 2163 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.

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