Show HN: Claw Patrol, a security firewall for agents

Posted by rough-sea 10 hours ago

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At Deno we've been using OpenClaw and other agents increasingly for addressing production problems in Deno Deploy - when a PagerDuty alert fires, the agent starts researching the cause and making fixes.

In order to do this, the agent needs access to real production systems - postgres, kubernetes, gcp, clickhouse, github, etc. But this is dangerous to say the least - we want destructive actions to be reviewed by other LLMs, approved by humans, and logged appropriately.

Claw Patrol terminates TCP connections over WireGuard or Tailscale, then parses application protocols (eg http, postgres, ssh) to apply rules that allow you to deny/allow requests.

There are a few projects that sit as a proxy in front of agents to do secret injection or apply various guardrails, but none met our needs (LLM gateways, MCP proxies, sandboxes), particularly the need to handle low-level protocols, or handle complex real world situations like tunneling postgres through k8s.

Written in Go, configured in HCL, MIT licensed. Happy to answer any questions.

Comments

Comment by Apylon777 8 hours ago

This is a really cool library to look at even if you aren't running openclaw directly.

Lots of good concepts to seek inspiration from.

1. process-scoped egress policy

2. policy-as-code

3. explicit approval classes

4. normalized network/ guardrail receipts.

5. structured guardrail outcomes

6. centralized decision rules

Comment by rough-sea 7 hours ago

Thanks! Don't forget wire level protocol parsing - this is important because agents usually can spawn subprocesses and if they have postgres credentials, you're just one psql call away from disaster if you only have MCP/HTTP proxies in place.

Comment by pavelpilyak 8 hours ago

Neat! Reading the docs - it's default-allow and ships with no rules? Any plans for a default rule set?

Comment by rough-sea 7 hours ago

Yes default allow and no rules by default. Some sort of default policy would be a great feature - I've been considering it. No one wants agents to DROP tables.

We have a big and detailed config file for our own internal use - but reluctant to release that exactly because it has information about our systems.

There's an example config file here that might be helpful https://github.com/denoland/clawpatrol/blob/main/examples/ga... - we use agents to write the config by pointing it at https://clawpatrol.dev/llms-full.txt