A safer way to control who can use an AI agent
Cast is an open-source tool for sharing the same AI agent across several people. Its main idea is to keep access control in settings, not inside the prompt. That is useful when running something like hermes-agent for a small team or personal workflow.
Key points
- Putting rules like “admin only” in the prompt can be weak because users may try to talk around them.
- Cast keeps access control in separate settings that the AI agent does not see.
- It shows a pattern for using one agent through Slack, Telegram, or the web while keeping each person separate.
- It is still an alpha release, so treat it as an idea to study before relying on it.
Quick term guide
- open-source
- Software whose code is shared publicly so others can inspect, use, or change it.
- AI agent
- An AI program that can inspect information and suggest what to do next.
- access control
- Rules that decide who is allowed to use something.
- prompt
- Text instructions you give to an AI tool.
- hermes-agent
- A likely name for Nous Research’s agent-style AI tool or service.
- Hermes
- A service for letting an AI agent use web tools and complete tasks.
- workflow
- A repeatable set of steps for getting a task done.
- alpha release
- An early version that may still change or have problems.