FlowSense
An AI agent that guards your Mac's network
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FlowSense names every connection your Mac makes, using carrier-grade packet inspection, without decrypting anything. Warden, an on-device AI, flags new traffic and asks before blocking or slowing it. Claude Code, Codex and other MCP apps can use it too.
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PH · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Security
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Privacy
- Security
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No Naming and blocking traffic on a Mac requires a system-level network extension with Apple entitlements, low-level packet inspection, and security-critical code, which go beyond what vibe coding can safely produce.
What it would actually take: The core is a macOS Network Extension (NEFilterDataProvider or similar) written in Swift or C, with signing and notarization under Apple's entitlement process. Connection attribution and carrier-grade inspection without decryption require expertise in packet parsing, DNS/SNI analysis, and process-to-socket mapping. Shipping it safely requires security auditing and ongoing maintenance as macOS changes.
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Attention rank: #102 of 195 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 359 days after the earliest competitor.
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