Stepgate
AI agents that can't skip steps, in one portable file
Details
- External ID
- 49872350
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Stepgate
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12998405103668262
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai agent infrastructure and tooling
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- single-file deterministic workflow engine for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Implementing a deterministic state machine or workflow validator for LLM tool calling in a single portable Python/TypeScript file is straightforward logic scripting.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1973 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1608 of 1974 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 334 days after the earliest competitor.
- The Extensible, Multi-Agent Personal AI Sidekick · hn · 2026-02-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- A2acast · hn · 2026-08-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Stepgate · github · 2026-09-26 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Nerve · hn · 2026-05-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Phantom · hn · 2026-03-30 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Agent Armor, a Rust runtime for enforcing policies on AI agent actions · hn · 2026-04-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- SentinelGate · hn · 2026-03-26 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Per-user isolated environments for AI agents · hn · 2026-04-07 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.65
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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