AI Developer Tool / Agent governance / runtime control

SHACKLE

An open-source governance layer and policy-decision daemon for autonomous AI agents, designed to enforce guardrails, budget limits, and runtime policy checks.

Clear27/30
Useful26/30
Specific16/20
Complete15/20
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Why it was accepted

The page clearly describes an AI-adjacent developer tool with a concrete purpose: governing agent actions at runtime. The snapshot shows useful implementation evidence, including a conformance spec, reference implementation, fixtures, tests, and Rust/TypeScript clients, which makes it suitable for a public directory listing.

Weakness

The crawl does not show installation steps, quickstart commands, API examples, or a concise product walkthrough, so it is harder to judge how to adopt it in a real project from the page alone.

Review status

98 days ago #1267 ↓ -6

Last evaluated 98 days ago. Current rank #1267. Down 6 spots in the rankings.

Score history

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