Nimuvo — AI Safety Layer for macOS
Give your AI coding agent room to work, not your whole Mac.
Nimuvo — AI Safety Layer for macOS launched on August 5, 2026 with 2 votes, #5,788 of 23,274 launches that month.
What it does
AI coding agents can run shell commands, edit files, and touch credentials — usually for far more access than the task needed. Nimuvo is a native macOS safety layer: it gives them room to work, within boundaries you set. Define approved workspaces. Outside them,env, ~/.ssh, client repos, and destructive shell patterns stay protected. Nimuvo pauses risky agent actions for your decision or blocks them. Local. Encrypted history. No telemetry, no account required. Free during launch.
Stop risky supported AI coding-agent actions before they run with local folder boundaries, destructive-action controls, scoped approvals, and encrypted history on macOS.
Nimuvo evaluates reviewed file and shell requests from Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and local Cursor Agent against your folder policy and 30 destructive rules before execution. Codex is managed separately through its native permission profile and command rules. The risk is not a malicious agent. It is one misunderstood instruction holding permission that reaches further than the task ever needed. Developer ID signed, Apple-notarized, and stapled. Updates arrive through an EdDSA-signed appcast with Apple code-signature verification before installation. Coding agents were given shell access because it makes them useful. The same access turns a typo, a misread path, or a confidently generated…from nimuvo.com
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