AgentGate
Shares rank 2 of 5 agent firewalls by recommenders
Open-source firewall that lets AI agents act under policy, queuing writes for your approval and backing up destructive targets before changes proceed.
Open-source firewall that lets AI agents act under policy, queuing writes for your approval and backing up destructive targets before changes proceed.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Gates risky agent actions before they run
“AgentGate solves this with a policy evaluation layer that wraps your OpenClaw tool calls”
Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “AgentGate – Open-source security firewall for AI agents (ALLOW/DENY/APPROVE)” “any writes get queued for me to approve first”
Comment from 4 Feb 2026 in “Let AI agents read your accounts, but approve writes first” Prevention and rollback as separate layers
“vault-backs every destructive target to an agent-unreachable location before the action proceeds”
Comment from 17 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Agent Gate – Execution authority for AI agents, vault-backed rollback” “Prevention + accountability as two layers rather than one.”
Comment from 13 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: A 3-line wrapper that enforces deterministic security for AI agents”
Other agent firewalls people recommend
The four most recommended other agent firewalls, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claw Patrol | 8 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
| AgentGateThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
| FireClaw | 5 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
| AgentArmor | 5 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
| AgentGuard | 5 | 1 | 83% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
All 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Prevention + accountability as two layers rather than one.”
“a single REST API that wraps these services with a unified billing surface”
“AgentGate solves this with a policy evaluation layer that wraps your OpenClaw tool calls”
“vault-backs every destructive target to an agent-unreachable location before the action proceeds”
“any writes get queued for me to approve first”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.