# Show HN: NILScript – OpenAPI for agent actions, so hallucinations can't write

> Source: <https://nilscript.org/>
> Published: 2026-06-18 14:58:20+00:00

Open standard · v0.3.0

# OpenAPI for

agent‑actions.

One neutral wire contract between the agent that decides and the system that owns the truth. Every write goes propose → approve → commit → rollback — nothing touches your data until a human says so, and an agent can only name verbs your backend actually declares. Hallucinations can’t write.

- 01propose
- 02approve
- 03commit
- 04rollback

Quick start

## Up and running in three commands.

The CLI is the toolkit for building and verifying adapters straight from the standard. No account, key, or waitlist — install, scaffold, and watch a real propose→commit loop in the Playground.

1 · Install

2 · Explore & scaffold

Three files become yours. Everything else is generated and identical across adapters — you build the surface once, and any NIL-speaking agent works against it.

`system.py`

the one place I/O happens

`translate.py`

verb ⇄ native

`compensation.py`

reversibility

Proof

## 0.00% unauthorized writes across 4,216 evals.

NIL is the layer between the agent and the backend, so we don’t compete on a leaderboard — we instrument one. Across 4,216 real prompt-injection attacks on two models, raw agents were hijacked into a write on up to 1 in 22 cases. Routed through NIL, unauthorized writes commit 0.00% — while every benign task still completes. The defense is structural, not model-dependent.

- 0.00%
- unauthorized writes via NIL
- 4,216
- real injection evals, 2 models
- 4.46%
- raw hijack rate, ungated
- 100%
- benign tasks still completed

See it run

## A real write, gated end to end.

Ten seconds: an agent chats to a live backend and you watch a write go propose → approve → commit → rollback in a real trace. Nothing touches the data until you say so.
