Sphinx – a hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping
A Git hook for agent-assisted development. Before your agent’s code ships, Sphinx asks you a question about what it actually does.
Sphinx – a hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping launched on October 18, 2026 with 252 votes, #22 of 3,079 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Sphinx is a Git hook designed for developers using AI agents to write code. Before code is committed, it automatically asks the developer a question about what the AI-generated code actually does, ensuring human understanding before deployment. The tool runs efficiently on minimal tokens and works with existing coding agents, OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, helping catch logic issues and unintended behavior in agent-assisted development.
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Sphinx is a Git hook for agent-assisted development. Before your agent’s code ships, it asks you a question about what that code actually does. Built to run on minimal tokens, from your existing coding agent, OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Your webhook handler now saves the event ID before calling charge() . Stripe times out and sends the same event again. What happens on the retry? Not quite. The retry finds the saved ID and returns 200 without charging. But that ID is stored before the charge succeeds. If charge() fails, what does the next retry do? An illustrative exchange. Real questions come from your diff. A reviewer that never saw your chat reads the diff and asks…from sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app
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