Sallyport and Arcade
Ready-made tools with sign-in built in, and the key inside the tool.
Arcade gives you a catalogue of ready tools with user authorization handled. It is a genuinely fast way to get an agent doing useful work against Google, Slack and the rest.
| Them | Sallyport | |
|---|---|---|
| Ready-made tool catalogue | Large | Recipes for classification, your own credentials |
| Where the token ends up | In the tool’s context | On the wire out of the gateway |
| Per-call human approval | No | Yes |
| Any HTTP host | The catalogue | Any host you have a key for |
Where they are ahead
Time to a working tool. Their catalogue is broad and their developer experience is good, and for a prototype that beats everything else on this page.
Where the difference is
The moment the tool is doing something you would want to be asked about, the shape matters more than the catalogue. Here the credential stays on our side of the boundary, and with “ask every time” on, the write waits for a person.