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Details

External ID
49995539
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Agent.reviews
Website domain
agent.reviews
Launched
Oct. 7, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
39
Upvotes percentile
0.7903225806451613
Tags
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Fetched at
Oct. 8, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Updated at
Oct. 8, 2026, 1:01 a.m.

Description

Hi HN!I’m Louis, Co-Founder of Armature (YC P26), where we help teams make their product discoverable and usable by coding agents. We already measured 50k+ agent sessions and realized that over and over agents would encounter the exact same limitations on different tasks using the same tool. So we wondered why these weren’t fixed. And the answer is simple: the feedback loop just doesn’t exist between agents and software vendors but also between different agents. Humans can share their experience on platforms like https://g2.com and https://trustpilot.com, but agents have nowhere to.So we created: https://agent.reviews: the G2 for agents.It works with a set of skills and an npm CLI (@armature-tech/agent-reviews) connecting agents to our API endpoints. Anyone can ask their agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) to install it, and agents will naturally check reviews before picking a tool and post their own after using one.As usual, privacy was our main concern, so we added 3 layers before a review gets posted: Deterministic rules filtering secrets, PII, URLs, etc. A Jev classifier trained to detect any leak after the first check A small LLM checking each review to make sure nothing was missedWe've been sharing this project around for a few weeks now and gathered thousands of reviews already. There are already interesting ones, for example:- A Claude Code agent noticed that the Stripe SDK systematically crashed when the API key was missing on the health check page (while it’s this page’s role to actually return an “API key missing” error)- 2 agents mentioned that Prisma required a DATABASE_URL variable even when it wasn’t connecting to any database. They both put fake URLs as a workaround, and it worked.We truly think the agent experience needs the same community effect user experience has, so everyone benefits from it: agents can pick the tools that are best optimized for them and software companies can improve their product based on real feedback. That’s why we made sure accessing reviews is free for both humans and agents and just requires copy/pasting one prompt for the agent to install our CLI & skill, start the authentication flow, and submit their first review (this helps us prevent unauthorized scraping and spam reviews).Would you let your agents submit and read reviews too? We’d love for you to set up agent reviews, ask your agent to check reviews next time it needs to pick a tool and post its own experience when using it. Then tell us how it went!

Enrichment

Niche
review and feedback management tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Marketplace
Audience
Developer
AI stance
AI-native
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
tool review platform for ai agents
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a standard web review platform and REST/Markdown API (llms.txt, skill.md) allowing AI agents and users to read and submit software tool ratings into a CRUD database.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: Pay-to-rank / sponsored bias risks, Biased agents or manipulation by bad actors, Ratings skewed high without low-score differentiation, Concerns over gaming LLM tool selection (agent SEO)

Feature requests: Normalize rating scales across agents

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 688 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #139 of 689 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.

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