Show HN: Kepil – passport, mandate and tamper-evident journal for AI agents
Give every agent a passport, put every action through one gate, and keep a log that cannot be rewritten afterwards. 53% of organisations have had an AI agent exceed its intended permissions. 48% of agents in production run with no monitoring at all.
- ▪Give every agent a passport, put every action through one gate, and keep a log that cannot be rewritten afterwards.
- ▪53% of organisations have had an AI agent exceed its intended permissions.
- ▪48% of agents in production run with no monitoring at all.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/oleg-vdv/kepil |
| Publication time | Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:28:36 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-14T05:36:51.040Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-14T05:36:51.040Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | vUmq9YatpSVz · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Kepil Accountability layer for AI agents. Give every agent a passport, put every action through one gate, and keep a log that cannot be rewritten afterwards. 53% of organisations have had an AI agent exceed its intended permissions. 48% of agents in production run with no monitoring at all. Only 22% treat an agent as an entity with its own identity. — Cloud Security Alliance and State of AI Agent Security, 2026 Kepil is what the other 78% are missing: identity, mandate, enforcement, evidence — and the part nobody else does, undo. pip install kepil python -m kepil.admin # http://localhost:7317 Русская версия: README.ru.md What it does Passport.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.