I made a local proxy for AI tool calls to keep my API keys safe
Details
- External ID
- 48023313
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made a local proxy for AI tool calls to keep my API keys safe
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1147011308562197
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai cybersecurity and penetration testing
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local proxy for ai tool calls to protect api keys
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight local HTTP reverse proxy that intercepts outbound LLM tool/API calls to inject sensitive credentials before forwarding the requests to third-party endpoints.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Integrate with local micro-VM (boxlite)
Competitors
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Attention rank: #320 of 366 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 188 days after the earliest competitor.
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- AgentMint · hn · 2026-04-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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- AiGuard · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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