Observed arrival · 2026-10-18
Shellhog puts AI agents to work on copies of your files
A macOS terminal that says it runs AI agents and other commands in a sandboxed copy, then lets users accept, discard, or inspect changes.
- For
- Mac users running AI coding agents or untrusted commands
- Worth noticing
- The page describes APFS copy-on-write, macOS Seatbelt, and Touch ID approvals, with a signed logbook kept locally.
Field notes
According to the page, Shellhog clones a folder with APFS copy-on-write, runs commands inside macOS Seatbelt, and tracks changed files with byte counts. Its review controls are ⌘A to accept, ⌘Z to unwind, and ⌘J to inspect; deletion acceptance and rollback prompt for Touch ID. The page also describes a signed local logbook and reports terminal-speed comparisons against Ghostty, but neither the security properties nor benchmark results are independently established by this extract.
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