AI coding tools have broad filesystem and network access
AI
Description
A few months ago I realized I had no idea what Claude Code was doing on my machine between keystrokes. I knew it had filesystem access. I knew it made network calls. But I had no visibility: which files it was reading, what subprocesses it was spawning, whether it had ever touched my .env or ~/.ssh. That bothered me enough that I built something to find out. The result is Agent Shield — a background daemon that watches AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Copilot, Codex) at the OS
Discovered
March 24, 2026
Added to Database
March 24, 2026
Notes
Discovered via hackernews search; 3 AI keyword matches