AgentShield
Hey, I'm Gong Chao, currently working at Zai. Last weekend after playing football and heading home, an idea suddenly popped into my head. I got the urge to build it and spent the whole weekend hacking it out — *AgentShield* . Nowadays everyone's using Cowork, Claude Code, or various AI agents to manipulate files and write code. It's awesome, but sometimes AI goes "crazy" and messes up your files, making it impossible to revert to the original state (don't ask me how I know... ). For code, you have Git, but that requires commits, and it's not friendly for large files. AgentShield puts a…
AgentShield launched on January 26, 2026 with 5 votes, #3,400 of 14,584 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Nowadays, more and more people use Cowork & Claude Code to manipulate files locally. It's powerful — but sometimes AI goes crazy and completely messes up your workspace, making it impossible to revert to the original state. AgentShield puts a safety shield around your local workspace. It monitors file changes in real time, and when things get messed up, you can rollback everything with one click — basically a regret pill for AI. Free & open source.
An undo button for AI messing up your local computer. - tomsun28/agentshield
Nowadays, more and more people use Cowork & Claude Code to manipulate files locally. It’s powerful — but when AI goes crazy, your workspace can be permanently messed up. One weekend, after playing football and heading home, an idea suddenly hit me. I spent the whole weekend hacking together AgentShield — a safety shield for AI-driven agent. AgentShield protects your workspace in real time. When things go wrong, you can rollback everything with one click. Think of it as a regret pill for AI. Download the corresponding platform installation package from the Releases page and extract it to install (supports Windows, macOS, Linux). For MacOS if you see “AgentShield.app is damaged and can’t be…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey, I'm Gong Chao, currently working at Zai. Last weekend after playing football and heading home, an idea suddenly popped into my head. I got the urge to build it and spent the whole weekend hacking it out — *AgentShield* . Nowadays everyone's using Cowork, Claude Code, or various AI agents to manipulate files and…
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