Clam: Semantic Firewall meets OpenClaw
Enterprise-grade security for broad-access AI Agents like OpenClaw
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YC · launched Feb 14, 2026 · 84 upvotes (top 11%) · 1 view
Niche: ai agent security and monitoring tools · 297 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Compliance & governance
- B2B
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial A proxy inspecting inputs/outputs of an agent can be vibe-coded, but building a robust semantic firewall that accurately detects indirect prompt injection, data exfiltration, and unauthorized tool calls in real-time requires sophisticated ML security work.
What it would actually take: The system sits as a reverse proxy between autonomous AI agents and external tools/environments, likely built in Go or Rust for minimal latency. The hard part is the semantic evaluation engine: fine-tuned small language models (SLMs) or specialized token classifiers detecting jailbreaks, prompt injection, and unauthorized data leakage in sub-100ms response times. Building this requires specialized adversarial ML knowledge and defensive application security testing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3918 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #407 of 3919 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 108 days after the earliest competitor.
- Carson: More secure than OpenClaw, More capable than Cowork · yc · 2026-02-26 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- argus · github · 2026-10-24 · 110 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- SwarmClaw · hn · 2026-03-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Clawvisor — The Authorization Layer for AI Agents · yc · 2026-05-07 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- offense · github · 2026-10-27 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Vigil · github · 2026-10-10 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- OpenClawMachines · hn · 2026-07-13 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- SentinelGate · hn · 2026-03-26 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.65
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