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AI · August 25, 2025

RAG-Guard: Zero-Trust Document AI

Hey HN, I wanted to share something I’ve been working on: *RAG-Guard*, a document AI that’s all about privacy. It’s an experiment in combining Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with AI-powered question answering, but with a twist — your data stays yours. Here’s the idea: you can upload contracts, research papers, personal notes, or any other documents, and RAG-Guard processes everything locally in your browser. Nothing leaves your device unless you explicitly approve it. ### How It Works - * Zero-Trust by Design*: Every step happens in your browser until you say otherwise. - * Local…

RAG-Guard: Zero-Trust Document AI launched on August 25, 2025 with 9 votes, #2,165 of 8,530 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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What it does

RAG-Guard: The Zero-Trust Document AI. Contribute to mrorigo/rag-guard development by creating an account on GitHub.

Finally, chat with your documents without sending them to Big Tech. RAG-Guard is the first document AI that processes your files locally and only sends chunks you explicitly approve to language models. Upload contracts, research papers, or personal notes — everything stays in your browser until you hit "send." 1. Drop a .txt/.md file → 2. Ask questions → 3. Approve chunks → 4. Get answers 📄 Local storage 🔍 Local search ✅ Your choice 🤖 AI response Traditional RAG Upload → Company owns your data → Black box → Hope for the best git clone https://github.com/mrorigo/rag-guard.git cd rag-guard && ./build.sh # With OpenAI docker run -p 8000:8000 -e OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-your-key rag-guard # With…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN, I wanted to share something I’ve been working on: *RAG-Guard*, a document AI that’s all about privacy. It’s an experiment in combining Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with AI-powered question answering, but with a twist — your data stays yours. Here’s the idea: you can upload contracts, research papers…

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