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by Raviteja_ 111 days ago
This is Ravi, the developer who built this. Few months back, I was building an AI app and realized my users data was going to OpenAI in plaintext. I searched for a local firewall something that would sit between my app and the LLM provider, inspect everything, and block threats. Nothing open-source existed that was complete. So I built Sentinel Protocol. It works like this:

1. You run one command: npx sentinel bootstrap --profile minimal 2. It starts a proxy at localhost:8787 3. You point your existing OpenAI SDK at localhost:8787 instead 4. Done.

Every prompt and response now goes through 81 security engines on YOUR machine. What makes it different from LLM Guard / Rebuff / NeMo Guardrails: - Runs 100% locally (they mostly require cloud) - 9 npm dependencies (they have 50–200+) Formal verification with TLA+ and Alloy specs Self-healing immune system that learns from attacks Federated threat mesh - share threat signatures with peers. The thing I'm most proud of is the self-healing engine. When it detects a new attack pattern it has never seen, it auto-generates a blocking rule for future attacks. It gets smarter every day.

Happy to answer any questions about the architecture, the security model, or specific engines.