Talos
An AI agent with a permission kernel between model and shell
Details
- External ID
- 49477530
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Talos
- Website domain
- talos-agent.ch
- Launched
- Aug. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6834677419354839
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai agent infrastructure and tooling
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai agent with permission controls for shell access
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Talos is a Python-based execution wrapper that intercepts tool calls from an LLM and applies a deterministic permission/TTL check before invoking the shell, logging actions to an append-only file.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Oberzugriffsmeister (ozm) - similar per-project allow/block lists, OpenClaw - compared as alternative, Hermes - compared as alternative, GPT-5.6 family - built-in safety checks, Talos (non-agent version) - different use case
Concerns raised: Landing page uses AI-generated copy, undermines trust in product quality, Natural language guardrails insufficient without external enforcement, Models already performing safety checks automatically - diminishing need, Attacks may work even 0.001% of the time in production, Trademark conflict risk
Feature requests: Marketplace or third-party MCP server support, Unattended run approval capabilities, Broader tool coverage beyond 23 gated tools
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1933 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #533 of 1934 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.
- Clawvisor — The Authorization Layer for AI Agents · yc · 2026-05-07 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- SentinelGate · hn · 2026-03-26 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Agent Armor, a Rust runtime for enforcing policies on AI agent actions · hn · 2026-04-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Cook · hn · 2026-03-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Per-user isolated environments for AI agents · hn · 2026-04-07 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Silverlake: The Java-native agentic AI operating system for enterprise · yc · 2026-05-19 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Arden · hn · 2026-05-06 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Rubric AI · yc · 2026-03-11 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.63
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.