Show HN: AgentArmor – open-source 8-layer security framework for AI agents
I've been talking to founders building AI agents across fintech, devtools, and productivity – and almost none of them have any real security layer. Their agents read emails, call APIs, execute code, and write to databases with essentially no guardrails beyond "we trust the LLM." So I built AgentArmor: an open-source framework that wraps any agentic architecture with 8 independent security layers, each targeting a distinct attack surface in the agent's data flow. The 8 layers: L1 – Ingestion: prompt injection + jailbreak detection (20+ patterns, DAN, extraction attempts, Unicode steganography) L2 – Storage: AES-256-GCM encryption at rest + BLAKE3 integrity for vector DBs L3 – Context: instruction-data separation (like parameterized SQL, but for LLM context), canary tokens, prompt hardening L4 – Planning: action risk scoring (READ=1 → DELETE=7 → EXECUTE=8 → ADMIN=10), chain depth limits, bulk operation detection L5 – Execution: network egress control, per-action rate limiting, human appr
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