AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to SHIVA
Guardrails for AI agents — proof, not promises
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Maki▲84An efficient AI coding agent. Native Rust TUI. Immediate startup, 60 FPS, low memory. Indexes files instead of reading them, chains tools in a sandbox interpreter. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Z.AI, OpenRouter, Synthetic, or any OpenAI / Anthropic compatible API.
2022 · maki.sh · its alternatives →
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Governance kernel for AI agents trust, approvals, audit logs
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! My name is Olaf, I work at CircleCI as a technology advisor in the CTO office, came in through the acquisition of my company Vamp.io (progressive delivery for microservices on k8s) in 2021. Wanted to hear the HN community feedback and thoughts on a project we think could be very interesting when adding AI coding agents to the SDLC and your CI pipelines. Our team at CircleCI built Chunk sidecars after repeatedly running into the same issue internally: by the time our CI catches a failure, the agent has already moved on and most of the useful context is gone. The basic idea of Chunk…
May 2026 · circleci.com · its alternatives →
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delegare▲70Hi guys, am building SecureLend.ai and when working on our underwriting agents (free trial, paid after) I had issues with seamless payment options. Of course I looked at x402 which I believe is a great protocol but not a fan of a) sharing private keys with the agent b) having a human in the loop or c) similar workaround e.g. pre-funded wallets So I started building out a solution. For my use case it was important to not only have stablecoins but also a fiat rail which is now implemented using Stripe. Initially I build a mandate system internally but am very glad and big shoutout to the guys…
Apr 2026 · delegare.dev · its alternatives →
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Prove that you said things before anyone else
Jun 2026 · yousaidthat.org · its alternatives →
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Auditable, provably-deletable memory for AI agents
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Proofling▲18The AI agent that collects testimonials while you sleep
Jul 2026 · proofling.com · its alternatives →
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Kaval▲19Verify what your AI agent believes before it takes action
Jul 2026 · usekaval.com · its alternatives →
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I built AI Trust Proof — an experiment in recording human good faith on-chain so it can be independently verified by people, software, or (eventually) AI systems. What it does (today) - Lets you sign a plain-English pledge and record its signature hash + metadata on Solana (devnet). - Mints a symbolic NFT badge pointing to that record. - Creates a verification page that shows the pledge, signature, and on-chain proof. What it’s not - No token, no airdrops, no yield. - Not a reputation score or KYC. - Currently just one signal: "Pledge signed." Why - If AI systems begin prioritizing who to…
2025 · aitrustproof.com · its alternatives →
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Software makes commitments all of the time. "I won't transfer more than $500," "I'll only access these three APIs," "I won't modify production data." But there is truly no way to verify it actually kept those commitments after the fact. All you do is just trust the logs and which the software itself wrote. I built Nobulex to fix this. It is open-source middleware that does three things: 1. Lets you define behavioral rules in a simple DSL (permit, forbid, require) 2. Intercepts all actions at runtime and blocks anything that will violate the rules 3. Logs everything in a hash-chained audit…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Audit your smart contract & save yourself from vulnerability
2024 · auditweb3.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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As a Security Engineer with over 10+ years in industry, I kept running into the same problem with coding agents: Instructions are not guarantees. I put guidance in `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`, memory files, MCP descriptions, and tool documentation. I explicitly told the agent things like: - Use the code graph for architecture questions instead of grepping the repository. - Do not use deprecated APIs or Unsafe code. - Prefer specific tools for specific tasks. The agent would still ignore those instructions surprisingly often. It would grep the entire repo, use deprecated APIs, or choose a slower…
Apr 2026 · sigmashake.com · its alternatives →
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Cryptographic proof — before execution, not after
Apr 2026 · cloud.authproof.dev · its alternatives →
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Cryptographic identity and post-quantum crypto for AI agents
Jun 2026 · aidatalooks-rvj8.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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ask an agent to buy something, and it hits a wall. Why?
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Martin, Nils, and Jannes here. We are building Legit, an open source version control and collaboration layer for AI agents and AI native applications. You can find the repo here https://github.com/Legit-Control/monorepo and the website here https://legitcontrol.com Over the last years, we worked on multiple developer tools and AI driven products. As soon as we started letting agents modify real files and business critical data, one problem kept showing up. We could not reliably answer what changed, why it changed, or how to safely undo it. Today, most AI…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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The guard that can actually stop an AI agent when it matters
Jun 2026 · veto-ai.com · its alternatives →
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blockchain, achievement, peer review, ai
2025 · proof-of-awesome.app · its alternatives →
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