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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.
Congrats. How deep the visibility goes with MCP/tool calls, can Patronus see what an IDE agent is sending before it hits the provider, or is it mainly provider/app-level for now?
About Patronus Protect on Product Hunt
“On-device AI firewall — see and control AI traffic, locally”
Patronus Protect was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 13 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #58 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
On the analytics side, Patronus Protect competes within Privacy, Artificial Intelligence and Security — topics that collectively have 483k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Patronus Protect performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Patronus Protect?
Patronus Protect was hunted by Benedikt Veith. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Patronus Protect including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Benedikt Veith
Congrats. How deep the visibility goes with MCP/tool calls, can Patronus see what an IDE agent is sending before it hits the provider, or is it mainly provider/app-level for now?