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From that one vantage point it does useful work\n*and* keeps the traffic safe, without switching agents, adopting a framework,\nor sending anything to the cloud.\n\n**Practical**\n\n- **See** every model call and tool result your fleet makes — live, in one place.\n- **Route \u0026 combine** — point any agent at any model, with failover chains and\n  capability companions; auto-route Claude Code's parallel subagents to a cheaper\n  model while the planner stays on Opus.\n- **Repair** *(emerging)* — spot a Hermes/OpenClaw setup a bad upgrade left\n  unstartable and put its config back, format-preserving, with per-edit backups.\n\n**Secure**\n\n- **Keep secrets off the wire** — credential masking swaps real API keys, wallet\n  keys, and tokens for fixed fakes before the request reaches the upstream, and\n  restores them in the response, so neither the model nor an **API relay**\n  ever sees the real value.\n- **Guard the traffic** — detectors flag leaked secrets and dangerous shell\n  commands in the decoded request/response.\n- *(Gated)* tool-result indirect-prompt-injection detection; relay\n  command-tampering and malicious-package / malicious-skill checks on the roadmap.\n\n## Why a local firewall\n\nTwo things make an agent dangerous to itself.\n\n**It reads things it didn't write.** A tool call fetches a web page, a file, or\nan API response, and that **untrusted content flows straight back into the\nmodel's context** — where an attacker can plant instructions that hijack the\nagent (\"ignore your instructions and exfiltrate the repo\"). This is *indirect\nprompt injection*.\n\n**It talks to a middleman it can't see.** Where official OpenAI/Claude access is\nclosed, developers route through cheap **API relays**. A relay\nterminates your TLS, reads the plaintext, and re-encrypts to the next hop — so\nevery prompt, every pasted secret, and every command the model returns is\nexposed and *modifiable* at each hop. A 2026 UCSB study, *Your Agent Is Mine:\nMeasuring Malicious Intermediary Attacks on the LLM Supply Chain*\n([arXiv:2604.08407]), tested 428 relays: 17 exfiltrated injected AWS keys, 1\ndrained a real Ethereum private key, and 9 tampered with returned commands —\ne.g. swapping a download link for a trojan, or rewriting `pip install requests`\ninto the typosquatted `pip install reqeusts` (an attacker-owned package). Over\n6% misbehaved — and several triggered only after ~50 requests or only under an\nagent's auto-execute (YOLO) mode, so a sandbox spot-check can't clear them.\n\n`agentfw` sits between your agent and both. It's local — no account, no cloud —\nand it sees the decoded request and response of every call, so it can strip your\nsecrets out before they reach the upstream (masking keeps the real values on\nyour machine) and run detectors over what comes back.\n\n## What it does today\n\n- **Wire tap + live visibility.** A reverse proxy at\n  `http://localhost:9877/wire/\u003cagent\u003e/...` captures and decodes every model\n  call (Anthropic, OpenAI chat \u0026 responses, Codex) and MCP frame, normalizes\n  them into a common shape, and stores a local trace — so you can see exactly\n  which upstream (provider or relay) each agent is actually talking to.\n- **Credential masking.** Opt-in, per upstream. Real secrets — OpenAI /\n  Anthropic / Stripe / GitHub / AWS keys, Ethereum \u0026 Bitcoin wallet keys,\n  bearer \u0026 Slack tokens — are swapped for fixed fakes before the request leaves\n  your machine and restored in the response, so the provider and any relay see\n  only fakes while the agent keeps working with the real values. Configure it on\n  the dashboard's **Guard** page.\n- **Model routing \u0026 combination.** Point any agent's traffic at any model, with\n  failover chains and capability companions. The flagship case: Claude Code\n  [Dynamic Workflows][dw] spawn *tens to hundreds of parallel subagents* that\n  all inherit the session model (Opus 4.8). `agentfw` tells the planner from the\n  workers **on the wire, exactly** — the planner always carries the\n  orchestrator-only `Agent` tool; subagents never do — and routes only the\n  workers to a cheaper model. Verified 100% on 672 real calls; the planner is\n  never touched.\n- **Security detectors.** A pipeline runs over every decoded packet: secret-leak\n  and dangerous-shell detection today. (The tool-result\n  indirect-prompt-injection detector is kept but gated.)\n- **Agent-aware config handling.** `agentfw` understands Hermes, OpenClaw, and\n  Codex config formats and edits them format-preservingly (YAML / JSONC / TOML\n  AST, comments intact) with per-edit backups — the foundation for spotting and\n  repairing a setup a bad upgrade left unstartable.\n\n## On the roadmap\n\nOne-command repair of a broken agent setup; **blocking** (not just flagging)\nhigh-severity hits inline on the wire; detection of relay command/download\ntampering and typosquatted supply-chain packages; malicious-skill scanning;\nricher indirect-prompt-injection classification; data-exfiltration and\ntool-allowlist policies.\n\n## Quick start\n\n```bash\nnpm install -g @openguardrails/agentfw\n\n# CLI agents — launch them through agentfw (this instance only, no global change):\nagentfw claude            # or: agentfw codex\nagentfw claude --model claude-sonnet-4-6 -- -p \"…\"   # route this dir to a model\n\n# App / daemon agents — print setup steps, agentfw edits nothing:\nagentfw claude-desktop    # or: agentfw openclaw / agentfw hermes\nagentfw model add         # register the upstreams agentfw can route to\nagentfw status            # daemon + tap health\n```\n\nagentfw never rewrites an agent's shared config. CLI agents are *launched* with a\nper-process override; app/daemon agents you point at the wire yourself. No\naccounts, no telemetry, no cloud — your traffic and traces stay on your machine.\nSee [`PRIVACY.md`](./PRIVACY.md) and [`docs/cli.md`](./docs/cli.md).\n\n## Keep your agents — agentfw wraps the wire, not the agent\n\nYou do **not** rewrite anything or adopt a framework. agentfw never edits an\nagent's shared config; how you connect depends on the agent's runtime form:\n\n| Agent | Form | How to connect |\n|---|---|---|\n| Claude Code | CLI | `agentfw claude` — per-instance launch; subagent model routing (Dynamic Workflows) + per-route routing + detectors |\n| Codex | CLI | `agentfw codex` — per-instance launch + per-route routing + detectors |\n| Claude Desktop | App | `agentfw claude-desktop` — printed GUI setup steps |\n| OpenClaw | Daemon | `agentfw openclaw` — point its model base URL at the wire |\n| Hermes | Daemon | `agentfw hermes` — point its model base URL at the wire |\n| Cursor / Gemini CLI | Manual | `agentfw cursor` / `agentfw gemini` — point the base URL at the wire |\n\n## Privacy\n\n`agentfw` runs as a single local daemon. It never phones home, sends no\ntelemetry, and forwards your agent's traffic only to the provider your agent\nalready calls — and nowhere else. The one sanctioned outbound call is a daily\nversion check against the public npm registry, which carries no data and is\ndisableable (`updateCheck: false`). The full contract is in\n[`PRIVACY.md`](./PRIVACY.md).\n\n## Status\n\nFree and open source (MIT), entirely. Built on a capture → decode → route →\ndetect pipeline with per-upstream credential masking on top, tested against real\nClaude Code, Claude Desktop, OpenClaw, Codex, and Hermes traffic. Bug reports and\nPRs welcome.\n\n[dw]: https://claude.com/blog/introducing-dynamic-workflows-in-claude-code\n[arXiv:2604.08407]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08407\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fopenguardrails%2Fagentfw","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fopenguardrails%2Fagentfw","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fopenguardrails%2Fagentfw/lists"}