Show HN: I built a tool that babysits your agents
Hi Hackernews, This is my go at an important issue which is making sure agents stick to their rules and context. After using agents and learning from the community on reddit, I decided to have a go at some of the most important problems surrounding how agents are built and deployed in production. This is meant to be a control layer for agents. It gives the agent an identity, policy, and a vault that holds the important sensitive keys used in monetary and high consequential actions. While also al
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Source account: Hi Hackernews, This is my go at an important issue which is making sure agents stick to their rules and context. After using agents and learning from the community on reddit, I decided to have a go at some of the most important problems surrounding how agents are built and deployed in production. This is meant to be a control layer for agents. It gives the agent an identity, policy, and a vault that holds the important sensitive keys used in monetary and high consequential actions. While also al
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