Tired of duct-taping access control into agent prompts. Here's the fix
Details
- External ID
- 48383471
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Tired of duct-taping access control into agent prompts. Here's the fix
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 22
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7616120218579235
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- 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
- Horizontal
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- access control for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Implementing deterministic policy engines or schema validators for LLM tool-calling access control is standard application logic that can be vibe-coded easily.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: cast, MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Concerns raised: Data isolation/access between concurrent users on same agent instance, Security review complexity when exposing write tools to agents, Resource consumption of running separate agent instances per user, Platform lock-in with IAM/secrets management providers, Capability isolation across multiple users with different trust tiers
Feature requests: Multi-user permission routing without prompt-level access control, Real-time agent collaboration across trust boundaries, Read-only-by-default access model for safety, Native support for different access levels per conversation entrypoint
Competitors
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Attention rank: #54 of 317 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 212 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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