Open Bias
proxy that enforces agent behavior at runtime
Details
- External ID
- 47938497
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Open Bias
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 21
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7589974293059126
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai agent infrastructure and tooling
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- runtime monitoring for agent behavior
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes An HTTP proxy that inspects, validates, or mutates LLM agent API payloads at runtime can be built in Node.js, Go, or Python with standard proxy libraries.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Nvidia NeMo guardrail systems, Traditional evals and observability tools
Concerns raised: Token spend overhead from 2x usage, Cost as bottleneck for agent workflows, Rules inconsistency across eval and production, Latency impact on voice agents
Feature requests: Cost breakdown documentation, Fine-tuning smaller models from collected mistake traces, Automatic classifier for sync vs async rule routing
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1968 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #387 of 1969 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 181 days after the earliest competitor.
- Agent Armor, a Rust runtime for enforcing policies on AI agent actions · hn · 2026-04-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- Arden · hn · 2026-05-06 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- octop-harness · github · 2026-09-24 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- SentinelGate · hn · 2026-03-26 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Nerve · hn · 2026-05-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Flocker.md · hn · 2026-08-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Agent Tuning, using recursion to achieve predictable agent output · hn · 2026-04-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- AgentSight · hn · 2026-08-21 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.63
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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