Show HN: Squidbrake – self-hosted approval gateway for AI agent tool calls
Every action an agent takes (running a command, editing a file, sending an email, issuing a refund, changing a database) goes through Squidbrake first. It is checked against your rules, held for a person when it's risky, recorded in a tamper-evident audit trail, and can be stopped instantly. Runs on your laptop or your own server; your data never leaves it.
- ▪Every action an agent takes (running a command, editing a file, sending an email, issuing a refund, changing a database) goes through Squidbrake first.
- ▪It is checked against your rules, held for a person when it's risky, recorded in a tamper-evident audit trail, and can be stopped instantly.
- ▪Runs on your laptop or your own server; your data never leaves it.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/batrapulkit/squidbrake |
| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:09:42 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-29T15:16:39.637Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-29T15:16:39.637Z |
| 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 | Wzs64mRESOt- · 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.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Squidbrake Brakes for your AI agents. Every action an agent takes (running a command, editing a file, sending an email, issuing a refund, changing a database) goes through Squidbrake first. It is checked against your rules, held for a person when it's risky, recorded in a tamper-evident audit trail, and can be stopped instantly. Free and open source (Apache 2.0). Runs on your laptop or your own server; your data never leaves it. Rules, not vibes: rules.yaml says what runs by itself, what's blocked, and what waits for a person. No LLM in the decision path. Human approval: risky actions wait in the dashboard, on your phone (one-tap links, push via ntfy) or in Slack. The approver sees what led to it, e.g. the email the agent just read.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.