Cardinal44/corral

Developer toolsC++

1.4 Quiet Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 30, 2026, 02:35 UTC.

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About the project

A C++ Linux utility that runs a command with a time limit and guarantees no process from the command's tree survives after it returns. Aimed at AI coding agents and CI jobs that run untrusted shell commands.

Useful for

Time-limit and memory-limit a CI build so hung daemons don't block later runs
Run an AI agent's shell command with a guarantee that background processes won't keep ports or file locks
Get a JSON audit record of a run with the exit reason and any surviving pids

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

0 stars so far today, about 2 expected by the end of the day.
The repository is 2 days old and already has 6 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Hacker News: “Show HN: Corral – Kill every command your agent starts” — 12 points, 1 day ago.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 6
Today: 0 · ≈ 2 by evening
Forks: 0
Issues and pull requests: 0
Watchers: 0
Language: C++
License: MIT
Latest release: v0.1.0 · September 28, 2026
Created: September 28, 2026
Last push: September 28, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

Show HN: Corral – Kill every command your agent starts12 points, September 29, 2026

Spotted in

September 30, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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