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Show HN: Focus on approving agent actions and managing team MCP access

A former AI agent testing employee has built Godrail, an approval system that intercepts agent actions and enforces policies such as spending caps to prevent destructive behavior in production. The tool integrates with any agent or workflow, escalating proposed tool calls to a manager for policy checks and signing receipts.

read1 min views1 publishedJul 22, 2026
  1. i use to work at ai agent testing ocmany i saw Agent is actually filming every day so I think to myself, why don't we just build Godrail approval so it is not filming in production? We would have a set of policies. For example if anything violates that, it would be stopped. It could be like a spending cap and all, like a destructive comment.

  2. The use case is very flexible so the manager could have access here and then be granted some permission on a different tool code that I had on their server. For SAK dashboard we have a live demo. Everything is really easy to integrate, just a few lines.

Currently I wanted to validate this by checking the pooling signal. There is a lot of governance popping up but I just wanna validate.

Technically they will hook this up to their agent or any workflow. Whenever there was a proposed tool call or something like that, it will be escalated to the user, do a policy check, and it signs the receipt.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013387](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013387)

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