# AgentGate

5 Hacker News commenters recommended AgentGate and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Open-source firewall that lets AI agents act under policy, queuing writes for your approval and backing up destructive targets before changes proceed.

## Why people recommend it

- Gates risky agent actions before they run (2 comments): "AgentGate solves this with a policy evaluation layer that wraps your OpenClaw tool calls" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139810)) "any writes get queued for me to approve first" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888413))
- Prevention and rollback as separate layers (2 comments): "vault-backs every destructive target to an agent-unreachable location before the action proceeds" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047699)) "Prevention + accountability as two layers rather than one." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365977))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Claw Patrol](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claw-patrol.md): 8 recommend
- [FireClaw](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fireclaw.md): 5 recommend
- [AgentArmor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/agentarmor.md): 5 recommend
- [AgentGuard](https://hackerapproved.com/p/agentguard.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "AgentGate", https://hackerapproved.com/p/agentgate/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).