HoundDog.ai launches ProtoMap to map service dependencies for coding agents

Co-founded by Amjad Afanah and Joohwan Oh, HoundDog.ai is giving engineers and coding agents a free, self-hosted graph of services, APIs and fields.

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AI coding agents can edit a shared gRPC service faster than they can find every caller in other repositories. ProtoMap tests whether a deterministic, precomputed service graph can cut token spend and prevent breakage by giving humans and agents the same dependency map before code changes.

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Amjad Afanah has seen the same failure mode from two sides of the developer-tools market. Before co-founding HoundDog.ai, he led DCHQ, a cloud management startup, to an acquisition and later founded APISec.ai, which built an early API security scanner. He then served as VP of Product at data-security firm Cyral and led product management at Cruise for developer productivity tools and the cloud platform under its autonomous vehicles, according to HoundDog.ai's founder biography.…

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