How to build and self-host a code review agent
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Hey HN,I've had a side-project that I've slowly ticked away at over the last year called Tilde. Tilde is a harness SDK platform - I've tried to take the best things of OpenClaw, Hermes & other harnesses and decompose them and make them available as cloud API building blocks.You can use Tilde to create AI agents for your use case, fast and self-host the agent's yourself.The documentation (and attached blog post) leave a lot to be desired in terms of technical documentation but hopefully the attached git repo does a good job of showcasing the API.https://github.com/trytilde/examples
HN · launched Jul 31, 2026 · 29 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent development platforms · 598 launches, 22 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial While basic agent loops and GitHub PR webhook wrappers are simple to code, a multi-tenant cloud agent platform managing isolated MCP servers, secure credential vaults, and bidirectional proxy infra requires dedicated cloud infrastructure engineering.
What it would actually take: Tilde's backend architecture requires an orchestrator managing sandboxed container runtimes (such as Firecracker microVMs or isolated containers) to run arbitrary Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers safely. Hard challenges include real-time bi-directional HTTP/2 reverse-proxying, zero-trust credential encryption and identity management (IAM) across dynamic tools, and managing persistent memory retrieval across agent turns. Building it reliably requires expert cloud systems engineers experienced in Kubernetes/virtualization, microservices security, and LLM orchestration.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: lm-studio, OpenRouter, Claude Code, Reticle MCP server
Concerns raised: Self-hosting models is very fiddly, Dependency on frontier labs (Anthropic/OpenAI)
Feature requests: Support for open source models instead of Anthropic/OpenAI, Integration with Reticle for agent coding work verification
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 875 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #215 of 876 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.
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