cfg-guard
Guard config edits with flock
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and a content-hash precondition; observe Linux file changes through inotify and /proc. Python standard library; offline selfcheck. Written in Python. Open source, MIT. Source, docs and issue tracker: https://gitlab.com/ameobius-ai/cfg-guard
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: software deployment and configuration tools · 165 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -68% · Explore this niche →
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- Dev tools
- Developer
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- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a small Python standard-library tool using flock, content-hash checks, and inotify, all of which are well-documented Linux primitives an AI assistant can write and test.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 98 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #53 of 99 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
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