I built Phinq because I watched an agent overwrite something it shouldn't have touched. I'm 21, a fresh graduate in London, and after graduating I couldn't find a job. So I went deep on the AI builder side. Tinkering. Learning. Trying to find my way in. Everyone was racing to make agents smarter. Then I watched an agent overwrite something it had no business touching, and it clicked. Nobody was asking the harder question. What should agents actually be allowed to do? This isn't hypothetical. In April, a coding agent deleted a company's entire production database and all its backups in nine seconds. Another wiped 1,206 executives' records during a freeze its user had explicitly declared. These are already happening to real teams. Phinq is the answer. An open source layer that sits between an agent and the world. Before an action happens, it decides how risky it is. Reversible things pass through. Irreversible things pause and ping your phone. It checks the action against the rules you set, then writes a tamper-evident audit log of everything. On our own stats page: 9,031 decisions classified, 323 held, 50 denied, 116 safeguard-disable attempts. And counting. Agents don't need more power. They need a bouncer. And the clock is running. The EU AI Act started enforcing human oversight 10 days ago. This isn't the nice-to-have layer anymore. It's becoming the required one. It's open source (MIT), and it works with OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, and anything that speaks those APIs. Either a governance proxy, or a lightweight skill you drop straight into Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode. I couldn't find a job, so I built one. In public. If you think agents need guardrails, the upvote means a lot. Happy to answer anything in the comments.

Phinq

Stops AI agents before they break something

Stops AI agents before they break something