Too scared to try local AI agents? This one asks before it acts - and runs entirely on your machine

Let's be honest — most of us are too scared to actually run AI agents. And for good reason. You give it access to your email, your files, your GitHub — and then what? It just does things. Autonomously. Without asking. One wrong prompt and it's sending emails you didn't approve, deleting files, pushing code to production. I had the same fear. So instead of not using agents, I built one I could actually trust. Three weeks ago I shipped the first version of Alfard. It manages my GitHub PRs, sends me daily briefings, tracks my Notion tasks — all automatically. But here's the thing: it has never once done something irreversible without asking me first. Every action that can't be undone — sending an email, creating a PR, modifying a file — hits an approval gate. I get a notification in Telegram, tap approve or deny, and only then does it execute. If I don't respond it does nothing. The whole thing runs locally, credentials never leave my machine, and every single tool call is logged. It's the agent I actually wanted to exist — autonomous enough to be useful, accountable enough to trust. If you've been on the fence about agents because of security and trust issues, give it a try: npx alfard-cli Takes about 2 minutes to set up. Would love to hear what you think - and if it resonates, a star on the repo goes a long way for a solo open source project.