SMRTR AIJun 29, 2026Hacker News

A user-space firewall that gates an AI agent's actions

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Guardian is an open-source, locally-run firewall that sits between an AI agent and everything it can touch — files, shell commands, networks, and online services. Rather than trusting the agent, it intercepts every action at the tool-call boundary, runs it through a deterministic rule engine, and flags risky actions for human approval in plain language. Testing shows it reduced AI prompt-injection attack success rates from 100% to 0% on banking tasks.

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