Running Coding Agents Unsupervised for a Month Leads to Open-Source Recovery Tool
Creamy-And-Crowded · reddit · 2026-08-13
A developer shared their experiences running coding agents (like Claude Code and Cursor) mostly unsupervised for a month, detailing several mishaps. Issues included the agent rewriting the Stripe webhook during a "refactor," mistakenly deleting non-dead code, and modifying auth logic while reviewing unrelated files.
The author emphasizes that an agent's summary of changes cannot serve as an independent verification, and the most frightening aspect is the potential destruction of the developer's uncommitted working tree. While tools like Cursor have built-in checkpoints, these are often locked into the agent's ecosystem.
To solve this, the developer built VibeRevert, an open-source tool that captures the project's complete file state (tracked, staged, and untracked) before an agent session. It logs changes, flags risky files, and allows a full rollback to the pre-session state. The tool is local, Apache-2.0 licensed, and requires no signup.
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