Show HN: PassControl – so your AI agents never hold your real API keys
PassControl / Agent credential gatewayYour AI agents should never hold your real API keys.Give agents cryptographic identity—not the credentials that pay for their calls. PassControl verifies each agent, enforces scope and budget, injects the vaulted provider key, and proxies the request. A short-lived work-visa carries identity and policy into a gateway that checks every request before resolving a provider credential.Untrusted agent runtimePassControl security boundaryProvider edge01EDPassport signsThe private Ed25519 key signs a one-time challenge locally.
- ▪PassControl / Agent credential gatewayYour AI agents should never hold your real API keys.Give agents cryptographic identity—not the credentials that pay for their calls.
- ▪PassControl verifies each agent, enforces scope and budget, injects the vaulted provider key, and proxies the request.
- ▪A short-lived work-visa carries identity and policy into a gateway that checks every request before resolving a provider credential.Untrusted agent runtimePassControl security boundaryProvider edge01EDPassport signsThe private Ed25519 key s
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| Original publisher | PassControl |
| Canonical URL | https://passcontrol.vertias.eu |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:09:41 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-29T12:54:33.134Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-29T12:54:33.134Z |
| 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 | X7vK_4w3Xqw- · 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 |
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| 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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PassControl / Agent credential gatewayYour AI agents should never hold your real API keys.Give agents cryptographic identity—not the credentials that pay for their calls. PassControl verifies each agent, enforces scope and budget, injects the vaulted provider key, and proxies the request. The key never reaches the agent.Install PassControlnpm · BSL-1.1npm install -g passcontrolCopyTry the live gateway ↓View source ↗Agent runtime / credential exposure protectedAgent holdsEd25519 passportsign-only private keysigns locallyAgent never receivessk-proj-••••••••••••••••vaultedWork-visascope · budget · 05:00Identity travels · provider secrets do notSource-availableFull working core · BSL 1.1Self-hostableYour infrastructure and vaultShort-lived accessFive-minute scoped work-visasMCP + SDKsMeet…
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