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HN · launched Sep 22, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent security and monitoring tools · 297 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 297 launches in ai agent security and monitoring tools →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight local monitoring utility (or GitHub CLI/TUI tool) that tracks running AI agent processes, logs, or MCP server activity on a local machine.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Users can easily build this tool themselves, Fragility if agent harnesses update their internal file formats
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3009 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1806 of 3010 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- Geiger · hn · 2026-09-09 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Scan your AI agents for dangerous capabilities · hn · 2026-07-06 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- busy · github · 2026-11-09 · 95 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- See how much your AI knows about you · hn · 2026-08-24 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- A2acast · hn · 2026-08-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Chiplab · hn · 2026-10-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Open tool for testing your AI Agents (No LLM) · hn · 2026-08-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- ClankerView · hn · 2026-05-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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