Show HN: Agentctl, a local control plane for coding agents

Category: security

Tags: ai-agents, security, cli-tool

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

Agentctl is a local control plane for coding agents that gates risky actions like package installation, secret access, and code execution, while recording decision traces for replay and policy testing. It fills a niche need for safer AI agent usage by providing a declarative policy engine and terminal UI, though its limited integration support (only claude-code and codex) and early stage restrict broader adoption.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, ai engineers

Repository: https://github.com/chocks/agentctl · Go · MIT · 6 stars

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