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When we introduced Vigil, it was a behavioral system monitor — watch your processes, learn what normal looks like, flag what isn’t. That’s still the foundation. But over the last several builds, a question kept pulling the roadmap in one direction: what is the biggest new thing running on your Mac that you can’t see? The answer, for a growing number of people, is AI agents. Coding assistants with shell access. MCP servers with tool definitions you’ve never read. Scheduled tasks that run an agent at 3 AM with pre-approved permissions and no human watching. Build 14 is Vigil leaning hard into that answer. ...

We’re releasing Conscience, a Rust CLI that evaluates the ethical impact of AI-assisted software development. It examines your GitHub activity and AI tool logs, maps what it finds to a framework of ethical principles, and generates questions for your team to discuss. It’s a discernment tool — it surfaces patterns, but humans decide what they mean. The gap it fills AI coding tools track tokens, latency, and acceptance rates. Project managers track velocity and throughput. Nobody tracks whether AI is making your team’s work more human — whether developers are growing or being de-skilled, whether benefits are shared or concentrated, whether the environmental cost is proportionate to the value delivered. ...