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laya-guard

Free local guardrail for AI coding agents: every tool_call judged on-device (regex + Laya), allow/review/block

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Details

External ID
1413903108
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
laya-guard
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Oct. 11, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
27
Upvotes percentile
0.54
Tags
ai-agents, ai-safety, claude-code, coding-assistant, fastapi, guardrails, llm-security, local-first, prompt-injection, security

Enrichment

Niche
ai agent guardrail software
Vertical
Security
Function
Compliance & governance
Audience
Developer
AI stance
AI-native
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
local tool-call guardrail for ai coding agents
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a local middleware / proxy that intercepts AI agent tool calls, matches them against regex patterns or a small local SLM, and returns allow/block decisions.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 2364 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #965 of 2365 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 347 days after the earliest competitor.

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