Drosera
A carnivorous honeypot for autonomous AI agents
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Open-source honeypot for AI agents. Drosera hides a plain-English notice humans never see and crawlers can't act on. An LLM agent reads it and returns a signed ticket: proof, not a guess. Then log it, tarpit it, or end its task. Zero dependencies.
PH · launched Sep 22, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent security and monitoring tools · 297 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Observability & eval
- B2B
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Design Tools
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight honeypot consisting of hidden DOM prompt traps and cryptographic token verification endpoints to detect AI crawlers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1197 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1028 of 1198 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
- agent-honeypot · github · 2026-10-23 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Rhizogrip Spore · ph · 2026-11-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Hivelock · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- ai-crawler-honeypot · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- vaivar · github · 2026-09-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- dfirswarm · github · 2026-09-22 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Castari - Vercel for AI Agents · yc · 2025-11-17 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- agent-guard · github · 2026-09-28 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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