Plow Latch
Run AI agents on your Mac with scoped access
Plow Latch launched on August 21, 2026 with 147 votes, #213 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Safely give your agent real control of your Mac, while keeping your data local on your machine. With Plow Latch, pretty much anything you can do with your Mac, you can do with your AI.
Latch is a Mac app that gives a remote AI agent permissioned access to your browser, logged-in accounts, files, and commands. Passwords stay encrypted in the local vault, and the Plow Gatekeeper reviews every request against the task you approved.
Latch is a Mac app that gives an AI agent permissioned access to your browser and logged-in accounts. It keeps your passwords encrypted on your Mac and fills them straight into approved sites, so your AI never sees them. The Plow Gatekeeper, a HIPAA-compliant AI reviewer, checks your agent’s requests and blocks anything malicious or out of scope, so your data stays protected while the useful work gets done. Your passwords stay private. Your vault stays encrypted on your Mac. Latch fills saved passwords directly into approved sites without handing them to your AI. Plow keeps no cloud copy of your vault. You set the permissions. Review requests yourself or let Gatekeeper check them against…from plow.co
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