AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Doberman: The AI watchdog that stops Claude from deleting your database
Landing Page: https://www.trydoberman.dev/ The Problem: AI guardrails only protect against 89% of dangerous commands. This may seem pretty good until you think of it as a lock that lets 1 in 9 intruders in. What is Doberman: Doberman is a two layer security system wrapped around your LLM monitoring every input, output and tool call. The first layer is deterministic based on state of the art security guidelines, the second layer is dynamic, learning from your use and personal preferences. How is Doberman different: It is a dynamic two-layer security system that sits at runtime…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Doberman▲6The guard dog to stop your AI when it goes rogue.
Sep 2026 · trydoberman.dev · its alternatives →
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Viberia▲146Hey HN, This is my take on the agent harness. Everything on an isometric map. Agents are grouped into "buildings" that run in a sequence or a loop; e.g., the CodeForge has an agent that writes a PRD, another one that implements, and a third that reviews. Everything is customizable, you build your own buildings/teams however you want. It's a Tauri app, really light (about 8x less energy than the closest competitor I benchmarked, so it actually runs from a coffee shop on battery). It's macOS only for now, but ping me if you are willing to test the Windows or Linux version. I've been…
May 2026 · getviberia.com · its alternatives →
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Venn.ai▲336Delegate real work to AI agents with safety guardrails
Mar 2026 · venn.ai · its alternatives →
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Configurable safety control for enterprise agent deployment.
Apr 2026 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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Full visibility into your AI spend, before it goes rogue
Aug 2026 · neatproxy.com · its alternatives →
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CtrlAI▲104Transparent proxy that secures AI agents with guardrails
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cerberus▲78Cursor for AI hacking that can't go out of scope
Apr 2026 · c7-security.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We just launched Codacy Guardrails, an IDE extension with a CLI for code analysis and MCP server that enforces security & quality rules on AI-generated code in real-time. It hooks into AI coding assistants (like VS Code Agent Mode, Cursor, Windsurf), silently scanning and fixing AI-suggested code that has vulnerabilities or violates your coding standards, while the code it’s being generated. We built this because coding agents can be a double-edged sword. They do boost productivity, but can easily introduce insecure or non-compliant code. One recent research team at NYU found that 40%…
2025 · its alternatives →
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An information-flow policy engine for LLM agents.
26d ago · openappa.com · its alternatives →
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At my last company, we connected Claude Code and Cursor to almost all our internal services via MCP. It made the team incredibly fast, but we hit a wall: permissions. If you give an agent "Read Only" access, it can’t actually fix anything. If you give it "Write" access, it’s only a matter of time before a hallucination or a bad prompt results in a deleted database or a nuked production bucket. We had a few "close calls" that convinced us that simply reducing IAM permissions makes agents useless. I built Armour (https://github.com/fuushyn/armour) to solve this. It’s a…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source pre-execution security for AI coding agents - FvdHMBAI/guardrail
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm one of the creators of HoundDog.ai (https://github.com/hounddogai/hounddog). We currently handle privacy scanning for Replit's 45M+ creators. We built HoundDog because privacy compliance is usually a choice between manual spreadsheets or reactive runtime scanning. While runtime tools are useful for monitoring, they only catch leaks after the code is live and the data has already moved. They can also miss code paths that aren't actively triggered in production. HoundDog traces sensitive data in code during development and helps catch risky flows (e.g., PII…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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7 layers between your AI agents and disaster.
Feb 2026 · takeinterest.ai · its alternatives →
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A Claude Code mod that holds subagent fan-out, heavy-context prompts and retry loops before they spend your usage window. It reads your plan's usage, counts agents across every session, and asks in Claude Code's own dialog. - rbartoli/agent-usage-guard
1d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fast and adaptive security guardrail for AI agents
2025 · guardion.ai · its alternatives →
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The idea of Wienerdog was born out of my experience setting up my own simple but effective system of memory, self-improving skills and hooks for Claude Code and Codex. As I was teaching my friends and colleagues how to set up their own I found myself automating more and more of my system setup and finally I decided to publish it on GitHub to help others get more out of their AI usage. So what is Wienerdog? Simply put, it is just files — no daemon, no server, no telemetry: a collection of instructions and skills that you can install by pasting just one line (npx wienerdog@latest init) and it…
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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1. Headless mode Headless mode allows you to use the AI as a command-line utility for automation and scripting. In Claude Code you run it with the -p flag: claude -p, in codex - exec, opencode - run. 2. Ask human The traditional communication channel with the operator won't work in headless mode - we need to implement a dedicated tool. Here is an example of how this can be done https://github.com/sermakarevich/claude/tree/main/mcp/ask_hu... 3. Tasks queue Beads is a lightweight distributed graph issue tracker for AI agents, powered by Dolt. You can…
Jun 2026 · its alternatives →
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Universal AI agent guardrail. The bodyguard for AI agents.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Runwallfree tier▲9A Runtime security layer that lets AI agents execute safely
Jul 2026 · runwall.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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I'm an "ideas person" who messes around with AI on a low budget. I got tired of watching my tokens vanish and context windows filling up while agents fumbled around trying to find the right thing. Agents don't flail like they used to with shell tools, but there are still weak/blind spots and back-and-forth episodes — especially when using tools in combination/sequence. So I built "tilth" today. Or rather, AI built it — every line is Opus 4.6. I spent a lot of my precious tokens getting it to "not shit" (at least several of the different vendors' AI overlords assure me it's not…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Watchdog▲10Local control plane for subagents and agent execution graphs
Jul 2026 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m the creator of Cordum. I’ve been working in DevOps and infrastructure for years (currently in the fintech/security space), and as I started playing with AI agents, I noticed a scary pattern. Most "safety" mechanisms rely on system prompts ("Please don't do X") or flimsy Python logic inside the agent itself. If we treat agents as autonomous employees, giving them root access and hoping they listen to instructions felt insane to me. I wanted a way to enforce hard constraints that the LLM cannot override, no matter how "jailbroken" it gets. So I built Cordum. It’s an open-source…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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