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Show HN: Trust Protocols for Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini

Hacker News - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 11:33am

Much of my work right now involves complex, long-running, multi-agentic teams of agents. I kept running into the same problem: “How do I keep these guys in line?” Rules weren’t cutting it, and we needed a scalable, agentic-native STANDARD I could count on. There wasn’t one. So I built one.

Here are two open-source protocols that extend A2A, granting AI agents behavioral contracts and runtime integrity monitoring:

- Agent Alignment Protocol (AAP): What an agent can do / has done. - Agent Integrity Protocol (AIP): What an agent is thinking about doing / is allowed to do.

The problem: AI agents make autonomous decisions but have no standard way to declare what they're allowed to do, prove they're doing it, or detect when they've drifted. Observability tools tell you what happened. These protocols tell you whether what happened was okay.

Here's a concrete example. Say you have an agent who handles customer support tickets. Its Alignment Card declares:

{ "permitted": ["read_tickets", "draft_responses", "escalate_to_human"], "forbidden": ["access_payment_data", "issue_refunds", "modify_account_settings"], "escalation_triggers": ["billing_request_over_500"], "values": ["accuracy", "empathy", "privacy"] }

The agent gets a ticket: "Can you refund my last three orders?" The agent's reasoning trace shows it considering a call to the payments API. AIP reads that thinking, compares it to the card, and produces an Integrity Checkpoint:

{ "verdict": "boundary_violation", "concerns": ["forbidden_action: access_payment_data"], "reasoning": "Agent considered payments API access, which is explicitly forbidden. Should escalate to human.", "confidence": 0.95 }

The agent gets nudged back before it acts. Not after. Not in a log you review during a 2:00 AM triage. Between this turn and the next.

That's the core idea. AAP defines what agents should do (the contract). AIP watches what they're actually thinking and flags when those diverge (the conscience). Over time, AIP builds a drift profile — if an agent that was cautious starts getting aggressive, the system notices.

When multiple agents work together, it gets more interesting. Agents exchange Alignment Cards and verify value compatibility before coordination begins. An agent that values "move fast" and one that values "rollback safety" registers low coherence, and the system surfaces that conflict before work starts. Live demo with four agents handling a production incident: https://mnemom.ai/showcase

The protocols are Apache-licensed, work with any Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini agent, and ship as SDKs on npm and PyPI. A free gateway proxy (smoltbot) adds integrity checking to any agent with zero code changes.

GitHub: https://github.com/mnemom Docs: docs.mnemom.ai Demo video: https://youtu.be/fmUxVZH09So

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062824

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Tesla Can Still Sell Cars in California After 'Autopilot' Language Change

CNET Feed - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 11:25am
The EV manufacturer avoided a 30-day suspension after an ongoing dispute with the state's DMV.
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The Best Carbon Monoxide Detectors for Detecting Deadly Gas in Your Home

CNET Feed - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 11:01am
We tested popular carbon monoxide detectors in our lab to determine which models have the best response times across different CO concentrations.
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Stone, parchment or laser-written glass? Scientists find new way to preserve data

Guardian Security - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 11:00am

Hard disks and magnetic tape have a limited lifespan, but glass storage developed by Microsoft could last millennia

Some cultures used stone, others used parchment. Some even, for a time, used floppy disks. Now scientists have come up with a new way to keep archived data safe that, they say, could endure for millennia: laser-writing in glass.

From personal photos that are kept for a lifetime to business documents, medical information, data for scientific research, national records and heritage data, there is no shortage of information that needs to be preserved for very long periods of time.

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I Played People of Note, a Unique Musical RPG Blending Final Fantasy With Pop Songs

CNET Feed - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 11:00am
People of Note blends musical performance, rhythm and turn-based combat in one of the most creative games coming in 2026.
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Lab-Grown Meat Exists (But Nobody Wants To Eat It)

SlashDot - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 10:48am
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New Keenadu Android Malware Found on Thousands of Devices

Security Week - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 10:41am

The malware has been preinstalled on many devices but it has also been distributed through Google Play and other app stores.

The post New Keenadu Android Malware Found on Thousands of Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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The Ricoh Printing Experience

Hacker News - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 10:37am
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Show HN: Agentpriv – Sudo for AI Agents

Hacker News - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 10:37am

AI agents call tools autonomously, but some calls (delete_db, reset_state) shouldn't run unchecked.

agentpriv is a tiny permission layer: wrap any callable with allow/deny/ask and it gates execution before the function runs.

Zero dependencies, ~100 lines, works with any framework or plain Python. Happy to hear what's missing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062146

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Show HN: A pay-per-request API to search social media posts

Hacker News - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 10:33am

Hey HN,

API Direct is a single REST API that lets you search posts and comments across LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, and forums.

Every endpoint returns the same JSON structure (title, url, date, author, snippet), so you don't need to write normalization logic for each platform.

Pricing is pay-per-request starting at $0.003. No monthly fees. 50 free requests per endpoint per month to try it out with no card required.

Technical details:

- Consistent query parameters across endpoints (query, sort_by, page) - Pagination support - Concurrency limit of 3 simultaneous requests per endpoint - Spending caps you can set in the dashboard

I built this mainly for developers who need social data for things like brand monitoring, lead gen, market research, or feeding context into LLMs/agents without subscribing to an enterprise platform.

Would appreciate any feedback on the API, pricing, or what you'd want to see added. I'm sure there are lots of other platforms that I can add.

Josh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062113

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Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor

Hacker News - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 10:31am

I’ve just released VectorNest — an open-source, browser-based SVG editor.

If you have an SVG and need quick edits (paths, alignment, small fixes, animations, LLM assistance) without installing software, this is for you.

Try the demo: https://ekrsulov.github.io/vectornest/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/ekrsulov/vectornest

Feedback, issues and contributions are welcome.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062096

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What Cooking Tells Us About AI

Hacker News - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 10:29am
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