aiignore proposes a portable policy standard for AI agents
AP_in_Indy · reddit · 2026-07-21
aiignore launches a public alpha as an open specification and reference implementation for controlling what AI agents may discover, read, modify, execute, or transmit.
Like .gitignore, an .aiignore.yaml file gives a project one portable place to declare boundaries. But it goes beyond file paths and can also govern environment variables, network destinations, tool output, generated content, and explicit exceptions. The example policy denies access to secret files, drops credential-like environment variables, restricts network calls to approved documentation domains, and redacts private-key material from tool output, requests, and logs.
The first release includes a draft 0.1 spec, JSON Schema, a TypeScript CLI and reference implementation, integrations for Codex and Gemini CLI, and portable conformance tests. The author says the goal is to make agent safety policies concrete, testable, and enforceable across harnesses.
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