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Observability and enforcement for every harness your agents run in. Wherever your agents run, we see it — and we can say no. Failproof hooks 12 agent harnesses — coding CLIs like Claude Code and Codex, chat gateways like Hermes, self-hosted assistants like OpenClaw — capturing every run and blocking dangerous tool calls before they execute. 39 built-in policies. Zero latency. Runs locally.

Supported harnesses

Twelve harnesses in two classes — ten coding CLIs, and two chat and assistant gateways (Hermes, OpenClaw). Same events, same policies, same session history, whichever one your agent runs in.

Agents that run in none of them report through the Python SDK, which gives you tracing, sessions and audits. Enforcement there needs a hook in your own runtime — talk to us and we'll map it.

Install

npm install -g failproofai
failproofai policies --install   # or just run `failproofai` and accept the first-run prompt
failproofai

39 built-in policies activate immediately. Dashboard at localhost:8020. Disable the first-run prompt with FAILPROOFAI_NO_FIRST_RUN=1.

What it stops

The first five apply to any agent that can call a tool. The last three are the developer favourites — coding CLIs are the harness class we cover deepest.

→ All 39 built-in policies

Your own policies

Drop a file into .failproofai/policies/ — it loads automatically, no flags needed. Commit it and the whole team gets it on next pull.

import { customPolicies, deny, allow } from "failproofai";

customPolicies.add({
  name: "no-production-writes",
  match: { events: ["PreToolUse"] },
  fn: async (ctx) => {
    if (ctx.toolInput?.file_path?.includes("production"))
      return deny("Writes to production paths are blocked.");
    return allow();
  },
});

Three decisions available to every policy:

→ Custom policies guide

Observability

Enforcement is one half. The other half is seeing what the agent actually did.

Run failproofai with no arguments and it serves a dashboard on localhost:8020 reading the run history already on your machine — no account, no signup, nothing leaving the box. You get the session list, the sequence of model calls, tool calls and hook decisions inside each run, what was blocked and what the policy told the agent, and an offline audit (failproofai audit) that scans your history for risky patterns and suggests policies to stop them.

→ Local dashboard · Read a trace · Local audit

Failproof AI Observability is the hosted side of the same data model, for teams running agents across a fleet: every run from every harness in one place, an execution graph with parallel sub-agents on their own lanes, p50/p95/p99 latency for models, tools and hooks, per-model cost and context-window tracking, error tracking, SQL over your own traces with shareable dashboards, evaluations scored by your own service, scheduled audits that turn recurring failures into evidence-backed findings, and alerts routed to Slack, email or a signed webhook. Self-hosting in your own cluster is available on the Enterprise plan.

→ Sessions · Audits · Book a demo

Documentation

License

MIT with Commons Clause — free for internal and personal use; commercial resale of failproofai itself requires a separate agreement. See LICENSE for the full text.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. New policies, edge cases, and translations all welcome.

Build before you start. Run bun install && bun run build first. This repo runs failproofai's own hooks on itself, and they resolve the failproofai import against the compiled dist/ bundle — without a build you'll hit Cannot find package 'failproofai' hook errors. Rebuild after changing src/. See Build before the in-repo dev hooks will work.

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