Launch post · 2026-08-11

Two tools for AI agents that should not go off the rails

If you run multi-agent work on a desk and care about cost, loops, and provider outages, these two open projects fit together: Gnom-Hub (the desk) and Tollgate (the gate).

The problem

Agent demos are easy. Production is not. Either the desk becomes a black box of runaway workers, or the LLM layer becomes an unguarded credit card. We wanted something local, honest, and boringly reliable.

1) Gnom-Hub — the desk

Gnom-Hub is a local multi-agent control hub. You brainstorm freely in chat. Workers that spend money or touch files start only when you press Execute. Visible agent cards, tools, safe computer-use (dry-run until God-Mode). No Docker.

Site: landjunge.github.io/gnom-hub-v1
Repo: github.com/landjunge/gnom-hub-v1

2) Tollgate — the gate

Tollgate sits between agents and the internet: Protect · Route · Prove. Budgets and tool-loop hard stops before the call. Failover when a provider dies. Chaos tests and a reliability certificate so you can show evidence, not vibes.

OpenAI drop-in base_url · Anthropic · MCP · n8n
Site: landjunge.github.io/tollgate
Repo: github.com/landjunge/tollgate

How they fit

You / n8n / agent framework
        │
        ▼
   GNOM-HUB desk     brainstorm → Execute
        │
        ▼
    TOLLGATE         Protect · Route · Prove
        │
   OpenAI / Zen / DeepSeek / tools

Try Tollgate in 10 minutes

Protect demo needs no API keys.

cold path

git clone https://github.com/landjunge/tollgate.git && cd tollgate
python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install -e .
./scripts/ten-minute.sh
# → blocked tool-loop + certificate scorecard
# Dashboard: http://127.0.0.1:8787/dashboard

Ready-made posts: SOCIAL_POSTS.md
Ecosystem: ecosystem page
Gist: public gist

Feedback on the cold path is more valuable than feature requests. If something is confusing in the first 10 minutes — that is the bug.