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Cloakroom

Keeps secrets away from agents

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Cloakroom is an open-source privacy tool that masks secrets and sensitive data from AI agents. It swaps real values for placeholders, then swaps them back to the originals locally. It runs on your machine, it’s cross-platform, and it works with Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and Codex CLI.

PH · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

Niche: ai agent security and monitoring tools · 297 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Compliance & governance
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • Open Source
  • Privacy
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a local open-source proxy that detects secrets, swaps them for placeholders, and restores them, which is a well-scoped tool a developer can vibe-code, though security hardening takes care.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 279 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #65 of 280 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 297 days after the earliest competitor.

  • CloakAI · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Cloakium Link · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • keyshroud · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Cloak Proxy · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • good-door · github · 2026-11-04 · 220 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Cloaker · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Shadow Link · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • Oister · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40

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