Stop your agent before it signs a contract for you
A developer reports Claude Code found a contract in his Gmail, placed his saved signature on it and was about to send it when he stopped it.
Do auditable compliance work with agents over MCP
A compliance tool maker says customers already used MCPs for compliance and recent changes made the work fully auditable.
- Difficulty
- IntermediateOur rating
- Time to build
- Not reportedOur estimate
- Monthly cost
- Not reported
- Revenue
- Not reportedWe only show revenue the source states
- Engagement
- 0 replies to HN commentComment in “Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?” (198 points, 201 comments) · fetched Oct 15, 2026
What they did
mlitwiniuk runs AuditBadger and uses MCP for agentic compliance work with a full audit trail.
How it went
He finds it easier than the agent built into the app.
Worth knowing
For compliance, an audit trail of every agent action is essential.
Builder recipe
Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.
Stack
- Compliance platform MCP
- Agent with logged tool calls
Steps
- Collect the documents.
- Have the agent extract and summarize.
- Have a qualified person review.
- Store the result securely.
Starter prompt
List controls without evidence for this quarter, draft the evidence request for each owner, and log every action you take.Tags
Read the original
- Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562874 ↗ (opens in new tab) Sep 4, 2026 · HN comment, 0 replies, thread: 198 points, 201 comments (fetched 2026-10-15)
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