{"slug": "show-hn-kin-make-your-ai-apps-answer-to-you-allow-ask-or-block-each-action", "title": "Show HN: Kin – Make your AI apps answer to you (allow, ask or block each action)", "summary": "Kin launched a service that sits between AI apps and a user's accounts, letting users set rules so each action an AI app requests is allowed, held for approval, or blocked, with plans priced from $0 per month up to $20 per seat per month. Kin states it checks those rules on its own server before each call reaches the account and that AI apps never hold the sign-ins, though it governs only actions routed through it. Paid plans are sold in selected countries, and Team plans require a two-seat minimum at $240 per seat billed yearly.", "body_md": "### Connect once. Use it in the AI apps you allow.\n\n[Browse services](https://kinlab.ai/integrations)\n\nClaude wants to use Work email\n\nClaude wants to\n\nSend an email\n\nWork email · \"Launch moves to Tuesday\"\n\nAsk me\n\nRules and approvals for your AI apps.\n\n$0/ month\n\nNo card needed\n\nIncludes\n\nShared notes and tasks for your AI apps.\n\n$8USD / month$9USD / month\n\n$96 billed yearlyBilled monthly\n\nEverything in Free, plus\n\nAlso included\n\nKin moves the work when an AI app hits its limit.\n\n$16USD / month$19USD / month\n\n$192 billed yearly7 days free, no cardBilled monthly7 days free, no card\n\nEverything in Lite, plus\n\nOne workspace and one bill for your team.\n\n$20USD / seat / month$25USD / seat / month\n\n$240 a seat billed yearly2 seats minimum14 days free, card neededBilled monthly2 seats minimum14 days free, card needed\n\nEverything in Pro, plus\n\nComing soon: company-wide rules and approval routing.\n\nAudit, retention and terms for your company.\n\nCustom pricing\n\nEverything in Team, plus\n\nPaid plans are sold in selected countries. Checkout tells you if yours is one.\n\nKin sits between your AI apps and your accounts. Connect each account once, then decide what each AI app may do with it. Each action runs, waits for your approval, or stops at Kin, by your rules.\n\nNot around your rules. Kin checks them on its own server before each call reaches your account, and AI apps never hold the sign-ins. Kin governs only the actions that go through it. What an app reaches on its own, like an account connected in the app itself or a coding agent's access to your computer, follows that app's controls. To keep an account behind your rules, connect it only through Kin and remove it from the AI app's own connections.\n\nKin holds them, encrypted, and uses a sign-in only for the calls your rules allow. Remove an AI app and its access ends at once, with any requests it left waiting. [What Kin holds](https://app.kinlab.ai/trust) lists everything Kin stores and for how long.\n\nAn account connected there works in that one app: you sign in again in every app, and each asks permission its own way. With Kin you connect once and set rules once, asks wait in one place, and one record shows what each app did. Switch AI apps any time. Your connections and rules stay, and a new app follows the rules you already set. If you use one AI app and its own controls are enough, you may not need Kin.\n\nYes. Put each client's accounts in a profile of their own. An AI app you add with a profile's address reaches only that profile's accounts. [How profiles work](https://kinlab.ai/docs/connections#profiles)\n\nYes. Team gives your company one workspace for its connections and members, with one bill for every seat. [Start a team](https://app.kinlab.ai/signup?plan=team), or [talk to us](https://app.kinlab.ai/enterprise) about Enterprise.\n\nCancel anytime in your workspace settings, under Manage billing. Cancel during the free trial and you are never charged. Cancelling deletes nothing: your connections, rules and activity history stay, and the Free plan's limits apply.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kin-make-your-ai-apps-answer-to-you-allow-ask-or-block-each-action", "canonical_source": "https://kinlab.ai", "published_at": "2026-10-29 14:38:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-29 14:47:03.728367+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Kin", "Claude"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kin-make-your-ai-apps-answer-to-you-allow-ask-or-block-each-action", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kin-make-your-ai-apps-answer-to-you-allow-ask-or-block-each-action.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kin-make-your-ai-apps-answer-to-you-allow-ask-or-block-each-action.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kin-make-your-ai-apps-answer-to-you-allow-ask-or-block-each-action.jsonld"}}