Geiger
See every AI agent on your machine and what it can touch
Details
- External ID
- 49627646
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Geiger
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 49
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8500797448165869
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 13, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 13, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai cybersecurity and penetration testing
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- visibility and control for ai agents on your machine
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI dashboard is straightforward, but reliably inspecting local OS processes, sandboxes, file permissions, and process trees across macOS, Windows, and Linux requires low-level system programming.
What it would actually take: A desktop daemon or agent built in Rust or Go interfacing with OS-specific auditing APIs (eBPF on Linux, Endpoint Security on macOS, ETW on Windows) to monitor process launches and file access. The agent sends telemetry to a local IPC socket consumed by a lightweight UI (Electron or Tauri). Building robust multi-OS system introspection and agent detection requires specialized systems security engineering.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: AgentsView.io (agent visibility/monitoring tool), Enterprise observability/governance platforms
Concerns raised: AI agents make dangerous mistakes (deleting wrong directories, context limit degradation), Prompt injection attacks can make agents actively harmful, Approval workflow fatigue leads to permission creep and reduced security, Most users not sandboxing agents properly in practice, Local models show worse failure modes than GPT with higher reasoning
Feature requests: Pixel display with animated emoji faces showing agent moods/emotions, Dynamic eye movement on rendered emojis
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1211 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #160 of 1212 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- Watch all the AI agents on your machine · hn · 2026-09-22 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Scan your AI agents for dangerous capabilities · hn · 2026-07-06 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- AgentSight · hn · 2026-08-21 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- A security scanner for AI Agent Skills · hn · 2026-04-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- agent-governor · github · 2026-09-13 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Beacon · hn · 2026-05-18 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Agent Armor, a Rust runtime for enforcing policies on AI agent actions · hn · 2026-04-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Fleet · hn · 2026-06-29 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.54
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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