The undo that is not the chat

The startup idea

The problem

The agent deleted a file that was never committed, and git status is empty.

Who would pay for this?

Primary

A developer who lets Claude, Codex, or Gemini edit a repo that also has untracked files.

Secondary

Someone who will install a hook and still commit.

Early adopter

One untracked file, one restore, and the 16 MiB line.

How could it make money?

Possible models. Nothing here is a claim about what unwreck charges.

• No price. MIT or Apache-2.0.
• The agent is one the user already runs.
• The post does not name a seat.

What would the MVP look like?

1. A snapshot before one agent command.
2. A restore of an untracked file.
3. MISSING for a file over 16 MiB.
4. The line that the chat is not restored.

How to validate the idea

• Ask five people to delete an untracked file through the agent and undo it.
• If the file was over 16 MiB, the restore should say MISSING.
• Do not count a restored chat as this product.

How to differentiate

• It runs before the tool, not after a git diff.
• Untracked files are in the snapshot.
• The chat is out of scope.
• Do not become another git host.

Product that inspired this idea

Ayush's post says an agent can delete files git does not track, so he built unwreck. Undo, and the files are back. Open source, one Rust binary. The readme says hooks snapshot the working tree before Claude, Codex, or Gemini run, including untracked files. Snapshots sit outside the repository. It does not write inside .git. It does not restore chat history. A file over 16 MiB is recorded as too large and comes back as MISSING. It does not replace version control. Garbage collection drops snapshots older than 30 days. Prebuilt binaries cover Linux musl, macOS, and Windows. The post says everything is back. The readme does not. This page did not run a restore.

Posted by @ayushdoesdev. Watch the original launch. No separate product site is listed unless the post itself is the source.

• agents
• rust

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