Agent Action Gate

A local approval console that logs and gates autonomous coding-agent actions without killing their speed

Problem

Letting Claude Code-style agents modify repos daily brings high uncertainty. One Show HN describes wanting a control layer to trace what the agent did and either let it continue autonomously or require human approval. Meanwhile a security report notes ChatGPT Desktop forwards the local SSH agent to remote machines, so a remote agent can push to private repos with local credentials. Existing tools are either too heavy for solo devs or invisible.

Solution

A locally running sidecar or wrapper that logs sensitive operations such as file writes/deletes, git pushes and network calls with diffs. Rules by directory and action type route dangerous moves to an approval queue while safe ones auto-pass with an audit trail.

Users

Developers and small-team tech leads running autonomous coding agents across multiple repos daily

MVP

Intercept git and filesystem writes into an action log; auto-approve or pause based on path and command patterns; local web approval panel with concise diffs; export logs

Revenue

Free personal tier plus team subscription for shared policies, audit export and group approval flows

Why now

Coding agents are moving from autocomplete to autonomous execution, making trust and safety the adoption bottleneck; filesystem hooks and git wrappers let an indie dev ship something useful fast