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OneCLI

Vault for AI Agents in Rust

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We built OneCLI because AI agents are being given raw API keys. And it's going about as well as you'd expect. We figured the answer isn't "don't give agents access," it's "give them access without giving them secrets."OneCLI is an open-source gateway that sits between your AI agents and the services they call. You store your real credentials once in OneCLI's encrypted vault, and give your agents placeholder keys. When an agent makes an HTTP call through the proxy, OneCLI matches the request by host/path, verifies the agent should have access, swaps the placeholder for the real credential, and forwards the request. The agent never touches the actual secret. It just uses CLI or MCP tools as normal.Try it in one line: docker run --pull always -p 10254:10254 -p 10255:10255 -v onecli-data:/app/data ghcr.io/onecli/onecliThe proxy is written in Rust, the dashboard is Next.js, and secrets are AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest. Everything runs in a single Docker container with an embedded Postgres (PGlite), no external dependencies. Works with any agent framework (OpenClaw, NanoClaw, IronClaw, or anything that can set an HTTPS_PROXY).We started with what felt most urgent: agents shouldn't be holding raw credentials. The next layer is access policies and audit, defining what each agent can call, logging everything, and requiring human approval before sensitive actions go through.It's Apache-2.0 licensed. We'd love feedback on the approach, and we're especially curious how people are handling agent auth today.GitHub: https://github.com/onecli/onecli Site: https://onecli.sh

HN · launched Mar 12, 2026 · 161 upvotes (top 5%) · 0 views

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

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Yes This is a reverse-proxy gateway written in Rust (using Axum or Actix) that intercepts agent outbound requests, authenticates them, injects stored secrets into headers, and forwards them to target APIs.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: IronClaw (hardened open-source agent security), Vault (HashiCorp credential management), AWS Secrets Manager, AWS STS (temporary time-bound credentials), 1Password adapters

Concerns raised: Prompt injection attacks can still exfiltrate sensitive data through legitimate endpoint responses, Design fails open to MITM if tools misconfigured to use HTTP instead of proxy, Doesn't solve underlying problem of agents accessing services; just moves credential risk, Prompt-injected agents can abuse proxied access for attacker's benefit even without key exposure

Feature requests: 1Password adapter integration, Dynamic access policies for temporary elevated agent permissions, Agent-level audit logging and request tracking, Integration with existing IAM systems

Competitors

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Attention rank: #76 of 780 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 120 days after the earliest competitor.

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