Introducing Arcjet Guards: security inside the agent loop
Arcjet Guards runs security rules inside agent tool handlers, queue consumers, and workflow steps - where proxies and WAFs can't see.
CEO of Arcjet (helping developers protect their apps). Co-Founder of Console (the best tools for developers). Researching sustainable computing at the University of Oxford.
Arcjet Guards runs security rules inside agent tool handlers, queue consumers, and workflow steps - where proxies and WAFs can't see.
How we built Arcjet’s production MCP server in Go: integrating with an existing API, reusing auth and middleware, designing agent tools, and supporting OAuth discovery.
What's new in Arcjet (2026-04-24). Advanced client signals for bot detection, request filtering in the Arcjet dashboard and agent-focused documentation.
How we replaced a single devcontainer with isolated OrbStack VMs to run multiple parallel development environments for AI agent workflows — architecture, CLI, and tradeoffs.
What's new in Arcjet (2026-04-17). MCP server, a new AI coding agent plugin for Claude Code and Cursor, and new weekly security briefings via email.
The expertise required to apply security correctly can now live inside the agent, not inside the developer's head or a separate team's backlog.
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