PANOPTICON 👁️

The Cognitive Immune System (and glorified babysitter) for Autonomous CLI Agents.

Autonomous CLI agents (like Claude Code, AutoGPT, and Antigravity) are amazing... right until they hallucinate, burn through $50 of your API credits, or confidently try to rm -rf / your hard drive.

Panopticon is a zero-latency, non-blocking wrapper that silently watches your agent's terminal output. When the AI inevitably tries to do something incredibly stupid, Panopticon's State Guillotine drops.

It intercepts the rogue process, uses a Meta-Agent to figure out why your AI is crying, and forcefully injects the correction directly into the agent's live stdin stream like a disappointed senior developer taking over the keyboard. Oh, and it saves that failure to a SQLite database so the agent never makes the exact same mistake twice.

Why you need this

• Native TTY Wrapping: Slap it in front of any CLI. Loading spinners, ANSI colors, and interactive prompts still work perfectly. We just spy on them natively.
• The Policy Cascade (Iron Dome):
  • Level 1 (Blacklist): Instant, zero-cost kills for destructive actions. Because your AI will try to drop your production database eventually.
  • Level 2 (Fuzzy Heuristics): Zero-cost math thresholds that catch repetitive loops. Stops the agent from running cat missing_file.py 300 times in a row.
  • Level 3 (Universal Semantic Logic): Streams a sliding-window of the terminal to a Meta-Agent (Claude, GPT, or Gemini) to judge your sub-agent's poor life choices.
• True Live Injection: We don't just kill the agent and leave you hanging. Panopticon literally types the course-correction prompt into the interactive terminal for you, saving the session.
• Persistent Semantic Memory: AI agents have goldfish memory. We use SQLite and Jaccard keyword routing to permanently scar them with their past failures so they actually learn.

Quick Start

# Install globally from PyPI
pip install panopticon-cli

# Export your preferred API Key (Panopticon dynamically routes to whatever you actually pay for)
export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-..."
# OR export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="..."
# OR export GEMINI_API_KEY="..."

# Slap it in front of your agent!
panopticon claude
# OR
panopticon agy

See USAGE.md for deeper configuration so you can start dropping the Guillotine.