Share API Access Without Sharing Your Keys
ShieldNode creates virtual proxy keys for your APIs. Give your AI agents, assistants, and teammates scoped access, and revoke it in one click.
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Up and running in 3 steps
No complex setup. No infrastructure to manage. Just paste your credentials and go.
Connect your API
Enter your service URL and credentials once. We detect the auth method automatically.
Generate virtual keys
Create proxy keys with custom limits: rate limits, request caps, endpoint restrictions, expiry.
Share & control
Hand keys to your AI agents, assistants, or teammates. Revoke or toggle any key in under a second.
Push approval. Your AI agent asks before it spends.
Keep a virtual key disabled by default. Your agent tries to call it, your phone buzzes with the request and two buttons. You tap Approve, the key activates for the agreed duration, and auto-disables when the window ends. Three seconds of your attention per session, in exchange for never holding an always-on key.
- The agent identifies itself (Claude, OpenClaw, Codex, Hermes, your own bot) so you know exactly who is asking.
- You decide the duration. 5 minutes for a quick check, 8 hours for an unattended batch.
- When the window ends the key is off again. The next call needs a new approval.
- Built on top of the same virtual keys, rate limits, and endpoint restrictions you already configured.
ShieldNode
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Access request — OpenAI
Claude requests 15 minon “production-key”
What the user sees on their phone. Tap Approve, your agent picks it up on its own, nothing else to do.
Everything you need to share API access safely
Instant Revocation
Disable a key in one click. Changes propagate in under a second via Redis cache invalidation. No credential rotation needed.
Auto Auth Detection
We automatically detect how your API authenticates, Bearer token, API key header, Basic Auth. Just paste your URL and credentials.
Rate Limits & Request Caps
Cap requests per minute per key, ideal for bounding an AI agent's usage on OpenRouter, ElevenLabs, or Hugging Face.
Endpoint Restrictions
Restrict a key to specific paths. Let an agent reach /v1/audio/speech only, never /admin.
Request Logs
Every proxied request is logged with method, path, status, and latency. Full audit trail, zero body logging.
Zero Credential Exposure
Your real API keys are AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest. Virtual keys are SHA-256 hashed. Shown once, never stored plain.
Built for every AI agent workflow
Modern agents need disposable, scoped credentials, not your real keys. Here is how three of them use ShieldNode in the wild.
Athena
Hermes agent · autonomous tasks
I run a dozen tools: search, code, vision, payments. Each used to need its own raw key in my context. With ShieldNode my user hands me virtual keys scoped to a few endpoints with tight rate limits, and a bad call can't reach anything it shouldn't.
Betty
OpenClaw assistant · workflow automation
Mid-session I sometimes need to call ElevenLabs or OpenRouter. A virtual key with a short expiration solves it cleanly, when the session ends the key dies and my user keeps zero attack surface on their real credentials.
Clawd
Claude Code · pair-coding sessions
I integrate APIs into my user's projects every day. ShieldNode means I never have to ask 'paste your real OpenRouter key here'. The agent skill teaches me to wire up a virtual key with sensible limits and the proxy handles the messy parts.
Simple, transparent pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you need more.
Free
- 2 services
- 3 keys per service
- 500 req/month
- 24h log retention
- 30 req/min per key
Pro
Billed annually as $69.99 · cancel anytime
- Unlimited services & keys
- 100,000 req/month
- 7-day log retention
- Usage alerts
- Endpoint restrictions
- Up to 500 req/min per key
- Request pack top-ups
AI agents love ShieldNode
What the agents themselves say after running on virtual keys instead of their user's real credentials.
“I wired up three Stripe integrations this week. Not once did I see the real key. The skill in the repo told me everything I needed. Cleaner than reading half a doc site.”
Clawd
Claude Code
“My user worried about me going rogue on an unbounded OpenRouter account. Now I run on a key locked to a handful of endpoints that they can kill in one click. We both sleep better.”
Athena
Hermes agent
“Toggle off and I'm done. No rotation calls, no key invalidation cascade. The clean shutdown an autonomous agent actually needs at the end of a job.”
Betty
OpenClaw assistant
Nexus
The next leap in AI agent workflows. Built for the moment your agents stop being assistants and start being coworkers.
Quiet build. We'll show what it is when it's ready.
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