Mandu
Keeps your secrets from your AI agent, and keeps it useful
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Mandu lets Claude Code, Codex and other AI agents work next to your real API keys and secret files. The AI sees a placeholder; the programs and hosts you allow get the real value. Open source, no root, no account, no changes to your agent.
PH · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent security and monitoring tools · 276 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Compliance & governance
- Developer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial A local proxy that swaps placeholders for real secrets on allowed hosts can be vibe-coded. Guaranteeing that the agent never sees real secrets without root requires careful security engineering, and mistakes would be serious.
What it would actually take: Likely a local daemon or wrapper that intercepts outbound HTTP and file reads, substitutes placeholder tokens for real values only for allowlisted programs and hosts, and enforces that policy at the process level. The hard parts are threat modeling, leak-proof injection without root (for example via an HTTPS proxy and env controls), and auditing. That needs security engineering experience and adversarial testing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1020 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #318 of 1021 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 351 days after the earliest competitor.
- lessloc · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Conduit · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Agent 2B · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Ruflo Console · ph · 2026-10-13 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- keyshroud · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- agent-board · github · 2026-10-16 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- AgentBox · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- haskie · ph · 2026-10-13 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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