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
Details
- External ID
- 97574
- Source
- YC
- Company
- Salus
- Product
- Salus - Runtime guardrails that validate AI agent actions before they execute
- Website domain
- usesalus.ai
- Launched
- Feb. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- Winter 2026
- Upvotes
- 30
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6821705426356589
- Tags
- Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, B2B, API, Infrastructure
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai agent infrastructure and tooling
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- guardrails for ai agent actions
- Manually corrected
- False
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
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Launched 98 days after the earliest competitor.
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- agent-governor · github · 2026-09-13 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- AletheionAGI · hn · 2026-08-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Retroguard · hn · 2026-05-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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