Salus - Runtime guardrails that validate AI agent actions before they execute
Salus checks your agent's actions, blocking incorrect ones and providing feedback to guide retries
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YC · launched Feb 6, 2026 · 30 upvotes (top 33%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent guardrail software · 200 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▲ +20% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Developer Tools
- B2B
- API
- Infrastructure
- AI
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Could you build this?
Yes Salus is a middleware runtime proxy that intercepts LLM tool calls and evaluates them against defined schemas, business rules, or LLM-evaluated verification policies before execution.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1606 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #819 of 1607 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 98 days after the earliest competitor.
- open-guardrail · github · 2026-11-04 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Agent Armor, a Rust runtime for enforcing policies on AI agent actions · hn · 2026-04-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- A pre-execution guard that stops AI agents running destructive commands · hn · 2026-08-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- AegisKernel · ph · 2026-11-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- agent-guard · github · 2026-09-28 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- laya-guard · github · 2026-10-11 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Arden · hn · 2026-05-06 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- SafeLabs Guard · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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