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Agent-password

a local macOS password manager for agent workflows

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HN · launched Mar 21, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views

Niche: ai agent security and monitoring tools · 297 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Security
  • Agent / copilot
  • Developer
  • AI feature
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Partial A local password helper CLI or daemon is easy to vibe-code, but secure credential isolation, interaction with macOS Keychain APIs, and safe IPC permissions for autonomous agents require serious security engineering.

What it would actually take: Likely written in Swift or Rust, hooking into macOS `Security.framework` and `LocalAuthentication` for Touch ID verification. The difficult problem is designing a secure privilege-separation architecture and granular tokenized IPC mechanism that allows AI agent processes access to designated secrets without opening arbitrary exfiltration vulnerabilities to prompt injection.

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 3618 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #3306 of 3619 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 141 days after the earliest competitor.

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