Sphinx
A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping
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FOSS, Basically it plugs into your existing coding agent workflow and every time you push to prod it'll throw up a questionnaire that checks if you understand how the code you're pushing works.
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HN · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 252 upvotes (top 2%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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See all 488 similar launches →Could you build this?
Yes This is a CLI tool packaged as a Git pre-push hook that reads `git diff`, queries an LLM API to generate a multiple-choice question about the changes, and verifies the user's terminal input before allowing the push.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: openspec, humantodo.dev, Husky
Concerns raised: Easily bypassed by pasting prompts into AI agents, Developers can instruct agents to remove the git hook, Ugly cursive and italic fonts on landing page, Promotes process theater rather than engineering rigor
Feature requests: Native Windows support, Integration with pre-code planning tools
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 488 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #29 of 489 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 352 days after the earliest competitor.
- LetMeShowYouSomething · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- AI Code Review: Catch Bugs Before Your · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Decipher AI: Agentic QA for the era of coding agents · yc · 2026-01-28 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- agent-board · github · 2026-10-16 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Claude Code Review · ph · 2026-03-10 · 539 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- prx · ph · 2026-10-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- AgentBox · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- ai-coding-interview-practice · github · 2026-09-15 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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- External ID
- 50137950
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- sphinx
- Website domain
- vercel.app
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.98
- All tags
- n/a
- AI summary
- git hook that tests developers on ai-generated code
- Manually corrected
- No