# Cardinal44/corral

> 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.

- Magnitude: 1.4 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 6 total · +0 stars today, ≈ 2 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: C++ · License: MIT · Created: 2026-09-28 · Last push: 2026-09-28
- GitHub: https://github.com/Cardinal44/corral · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/Cardinal44/corral

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 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.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 0
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 3 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v0.1.0 (2026-09-28)

## Stars per day, last 4 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-27 … 2026-09-30: 0, 3, 3, 0

## Hacker News

- Show HN: Corral – Kill every command your agent starts — 12 points, 2 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886422

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-30 03:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.