Termaxa
Product Hunt Manoj Pandhare
Termaxa sits in the path of Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Copilot. It previews deletes, makes a backup, and can refuse actions under your policy.
Based on reporting by Product Hunt, Manoj Pandhare — read the original for the full story.
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Termaxa is launching as a gate for AI coding agents, sitting in the hook path of tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Copilot. The pitch is simple: before an agent deletes anything, Termaxa shows what would go away, backs it up, and then either asks for approval or blocks the action based on policy.
That puts the product in a very specific spot. It is not trying to replace the coding agent. It is trying to stand in front of it, catch the risky stuff, and make the deletion path less terrifying for people who are letting software act on their codebase.
The team says Termaxa can start in observe mode. In that mode, nothing gets blocked. Instead, it produces a report of what it would have caught, which is a sensible way to see how often the guardrail would actually fire before turning the screws.
It is also open source and written in Rust. Product Hunt lists it under developer tools and GitHub, which fits the whole thing neatly: a practical control layer for agentic coding, not another shiny agent promising to do the whole job for you.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right kind of paranoia. AI coding tools are getting access to more rope than most teams would ever hand a junior engineer, so a delete-checking gate is basic hygiene, not drama. Open source helps too, because trust is easier when the thing guarding your files isn’t a black box with a marketing page.
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