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Alexander Paris
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Why I spent 14 months building a firewall for AI agents

System prompts aren't enough. They are just a polite request for an agent to behave. In production, 'please don't delete the database' is not a security strategy.

Today, we are moving SupraWall to a public repository. It's the missing layer for agentic workflows: A hard gate that intercepts every tool call, evaluates it against real-time policy, and injects vault credentials just-in-time.

This isn't about blocking AI. It's about giving agents the professional guardrails they need to handle real-world permissions securely.

  • Open source
  • Apache 2.0
  • EU AI Act ready

Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/wiserautomation/SupraWall

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