Show HN: Stonefold – a deterministic gateway between AI agents and your systems
deterministic enforcement for AI agents The AI proposes.A machine you control disposes. Stonefold is a deterministic gateway between an AI agent and the systems it acts on: database, email, payments. The agent submits typed intents; the gateway enforces policy (allow, hold for a human, deny), executes what passes, and audits every attempt.
- ▪deterministic enforcement for AI agents The AI proposes.A machine you control disposes.
- ▪Stonefold is a deterministic gateway between an AI agent and the systems it acts on: database, email, payments.
- ▪The agent submits typed intents; the gateway enforces policy (allow, hold for a human, deny), executes what passes, and audits every attempt.
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| Original publisher | Stonefold |
| Canonical URL | https://stonefold.ai/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:02:23 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-04T14:15:41.474Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-04T14:15:41.474Z |
| 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 | 1vN-DPkNXBk8 · 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 |
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deterministic enforcement for AI agents The AI proposes.A machine you control disposes. Stonefold is a deterministic gateway between an AI agent and the systems it acts on: database, email, payments. The agent submits typed intents; the gateway enforces policy (allow, hold for a human, deny), executes what passes, and audits every attempt. No LLM in the enforcement path. Run the demo Read the spec stonefold v0.6.0 · stele spec v0.6 · apache-2.0, provided as is, no warranty · early stage: evolving spec + working prototype + test kit · where this stands → live trace — three agents · s1audit: full effect Payment.pay $800 → Acmematches open order · within limitsALLOW effect Payment.pay $800 → Acme, againorder line already consumedHOLD effect Payment.pay $6,000 → Globexawaiting…
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