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AI · April 8, 2026

Yolt – safer YOLO mode for LLMs (recover deleted or overwritten files)

Undo Destructive LLM Actions — Yolt (You Only Live Twice) — CLI tool that automatically backs up files every time they change, allowing for quick reverts when AI does things it shouldn't. A safer way to yolo. - mvanderlinde/yolt

Yolt – safer YOLO mode for LLMs (recover deleted or overwritten files) launched on April 8, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,409 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Yolt (You Only Live Twice) is a lightweight CLI that makes it safer to run LLMs with filesystem access by keeping restorable snapshots of your files. It was built after an LLM running locally overwrote a SQLite DB file with no recovery path. Yolt doesn't try to undo everything, it just makes sure you have a recoverable version when things go wrong. Backup retention limits (30m default) and optional disk space limits are used to control disk usage. Details, flags, and behavior are spelled out in [spec/](spec/README.md) . cargo install --path . # or cargo build --release # binary: target/release/yolt Usage Start watching (directory is optional, defaults to the current directory): yolt restore…from github.com

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