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Cognis
The governed runtime for AI agents
Cognis is an open-source, local-first runtime for executing AI agent workflows with policy enforcement, human authorization, controlled MCP tool execution, and audit logging.
Hey everyone — I'm Aritra, the person building Cognis.
I've been working on the project because I think there's a missing layer between AI agents and the systems they can control.
MCP is making agent/tool interoperability much easier, but I wanted to explore what happens when you add an actual governed execution layer around it: policies, human authorization, security boundaries, and an audit trail.
Cognis is my attempt at building that layer as an open-source project.
It's still early, so I'm particularly interested in feedback from people building agents, MCP servers, developer tools, or local AI systems.
What would you want a governed agent runtime to handle that current agent frameworks don't?
About Cognis on Product Hunt
“The governed runtime for AI agents”
Cognis was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Cognis is an open-source, local-first runtime for executing AI agent workflows with policy enforcement, human authorization, controlled MCP tool execution, and audit logging.
On the analytics side, Cognis competes within Productivity, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.7M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Cognis performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Cognis?
Cognis was hunted by Aritra De. 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.
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