Glyphmap AI Guardrails

Stop AI coding agents from hallucinating files, drifting off-task, and making unsafe project changes.

Glyphmap is a baby gate for your AI agents. It installs a local runtime that Claude, Codex, Grok Build, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, MCP, VS Code, and terminal workflows can ask before they read, write, scaffold, sync, or change a project. When an agent starts to invent files, wander outside the active task, or repeat a bad pattern, Glyphmap can surface context, ask for approval, or stop the action before the project drifts.

Installing or activating the extension does not modify a workspace by itself. Run Glyphmap: Init or Glyphmap: Login to bind a workspace to a Glyphmap project.

Why Glyphmap

• Keeps agents on the active task instead of wandering into unrelated files.
• Catches made-up changes, unsafe deletes, bypass attempts, and risky shell actions before they run.
• Gives agents project memory and scoped context so they do not keep rediscovering the same facts.
• Shows prevention activity in a local dashboard: kept on task, guesses caught, made-up changes stopped, recent decisions, memory, policy, service, and task status.

See It Work

Get Started

1. Install the extension.
2. Open the Command Palette.
3. Run Glyphmap: Init.
4. Sign in, choose a Glyphmap project, and confirm the workspace settings.
5. Keep using your coding agent. Glyphmap installs the local runtime, hooks, skills, commands, language packs, and dashboard support for the workspace.

What It Adds

• Native workspace runtime for macOS and Windows, packaged with the extension.
• One local daemon per Glyphmap project, shared by editor and terminal agent hooks.
• Managed Claude, Codex, Grok Build, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity bootstrap files, hooks, skills, commands, and language packs.
• Project decision rules for allow, ask, warn, deny, restore, receipt, response, and context behavior.
• Local memory and compact-rehydration support for project, user, and conversation scoped work.
• Context refresh, context lookup, wide recall, memory status, session status, and clear memory commands.
• Runtime dependency checks with direct macOS and Windows install guidance when required system libraries are missing.
• Logout guard that stops the project service and prevents auto-start until the next successful login.

Marketplace Assets

Screenshots, demo plans, and social/demo copy are tracked in the repository under assets/vscode-marketplace. Package builds stage root assets/ into the VSIX so the marketplace README can render the generated screenshot and GIF assets above.

The priority demo story is simple: an AI coding agent goes off-task, Glyphmap catches it in real time, and the dashboard shows the prevention.

Commands

• Glyphmap: Init logs in when needed, lets you choose a Glyphmap project, and installs the runtime, language packs, hooks, commands, and bootstrap files.
• Glyphmap: Login signs into Glyphmap, stores the session in VS Code secrets and the native credential store, then runs the same init flow.
• Glyphmap: Logout signs out, stops the active workspace service, removes service leases, and blocks auto-start until login succeeds again.
• Glyphmap: Dashboard opens a local project dashboard backed by the native Glyphmap command contract.
• Glyphmap: Sync refreshes local project policy, keys, language packs, responses, and runtime cache data.
• Glyphmap: Select Active Task narrows the current workspace policy to a server-defined task.
• Glyphmap: Start Service starts the local project daemon.
• Glyphmap: Stop Service stops the daemon for the active workspace.
• Glyphmap: Restart Service restarts the daemon for the active workspace.
• Glyphmap: Status shows install and daemon status for the selected project.
• Glyphmap: Session Status shows local session status.
• Glyphmap: Memory Status shows scoped memory status.
• Glyphmap: Enable Wide Recall enables wider memory recall for the selected scope.
• Glyphmap: Get Context requests context for a selected file or folder.
• Glyphmap: Refresh Context refreshes local context and memory data.
• Glyphmap: Verify Context checks local context health.
• Glyphmap: Clear Memory clears local memory for the current workspace scope.
• Glyphmap: Enable Enforcement enables local enforcement for the workspace.
• Glyphmap: Disable Enforcement disables local enforcement for the workspace.
• Glyphmap: Uninstall stops the service and removes managed Glyphmap traces from the active workspace.

Requirements

• macOS arm64 or Windows x64 package matching your machine.
• A Glyphmap account and project.
• On Windows, install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2022 if the native runtime cannot start: https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist
• On macOS, keep macOS current. If system runtime libraries are missing, install Apple Command Line Tools from https://developer.apple.com/download/all/