Benedikt Veith

Benedikt Veith

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  • Patronus Protect
    Patronus ProtectOn-device AI firewall — see and control AI traffic, locally
    May 2026
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    Joined Product HuntMay 9th, 2026

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1mo ago

Release of v0.1.4: Stability + Policy Rules for MCPs

We just released a new version of Patronus Protect:

  • Improved onboarding + enforce /Applications folder

  • Improved stability for gRPC connections

  • Improved handling of unknown carrier protocols like protobuf, msgpack, binary

    • AI Detection in Cursor, Windsurf, Warp, ... IDEs work now

  • Some more extraction patterns

  • Added heuristical threat analysis.

    • See why req, res, tools, mcps where flagged

    • Currently non-blocking, pure informational

  • Added ability to create Policy rules for MCP and Native Tool calls

    • Block / Allow specific tool calls before they are executed

Feel free to post some feedback, else see you next week with another amazing release and improvements :)

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2mo ago

Patronus Protect - On-device AI firewall — see and control AI traffic, locally

Patronus is an AI firewall that runs on your laptop. It sees AI traffic across browsers, IDEs, native apps, and MCP servers — and lets you set policies per app. Local-first by design. Free public alpha. Built in Regensburg.
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