{"slug": "hounddog-ai-launches-protomap-to-map-service-dependencies-for-coding-agents", "title": "HoundDog.ai launches ProtoMap to map service dependencies for coding agents", "summary": "HoundDog.ai, co-founded by Amjad Afanah and Joohwan Oh, launched ProtoMap, a free, self-hosted graph of services, APIs and fields that maps the blast radius of every gRPC and Protobuf change across monorepos and microservices. ProtoMap is aimed at giving engineers and AI coding agents the same precomputed dependency map before code changes, testing whether a deterministic service graph can cut token spend and prevent breakage when agents edit shared gRPC services faster than they can find every caller in other repositories.", "body_md": "# HoundDog.ai launches ProtoMap to map service dependencies for coding agents\n\n**Co-founded by Amjad Afanah and Joohwan Oh, HoundDog.ai is giving engineers and coding agents a free, self-hosted graph of services, APIs and fields.**\n\n        By [RuntimeWire Staff](https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff)\n        · Published \n        · Updated \n\nPrimary source: [PR Newswire Business Technology](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hounddogai-launches-protomap-to-show-the-blast-radius-of-every-grpc-and-protobuf-change-across-monorepos-and-microservices-302931453.html)\n\n## Why it matters\n\nAI coding agents can edit a shared gRPC service faster than they can find every caller in other repositories. ProtoMap tests whether a deterministic, precomputed service graph can cut token spend and prevent breakage by giving humans and agents the same dependency map before code changes.\n\nAmjad Afanah has seen the same failure mode from two sides of the developer-tools market. Before co-founding [HoundDog.ai](https://hounddog.ai/?ref=runtimewire), he led DCHQ, a cloud management startup, to an acquisition and later founded APISec.ai, which built an early API security scanner. He then served as VP of Product at data-security firm Cyral and led product management at Cruise for developer productivity tools and the cloud platform under its autonomous vehicles, according to [HoundDog.ai's founder biography](https://hounddog.ai/about-us/?ref=runtimewire).…\n\nWhen you purchase through links in our articles, [we may earn a small commission](https://runtimewire.com/affiliate-monetization-standards). This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hounddog-ai-launches-protomap-to-map-service-dependencies-for-coding-agents", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/hounddogai-protomap-grpc-service-graph-amjad-afanah", "published_at": "2026-11-09 13:50:16+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-09 16:52:59.266762+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["HoundDog.ai", "ProtoMap", "Amjad Afanah", "Joohwan Oh", "DCHQ", "APISec.ai", "Cyral", "Cruise"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hounddog-ai-launches-protomap-to-map-service-dependencies-for-coding-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hounddog-ai-launches-protomap-to-map-service-dependencies-for-coding-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hounddog-ai-launches-protomap-to-map-service-dependencies-for-coding-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hounddog-ai-launches-protomap-to-map-service-dependencies-for-coding-agents.jsonld"}}